Facebook Twitter Email. The woman, identified only as Marie-Helene, was apprehended on August 27 by local Indian police in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Lakshman Jhula is a suspension bridge about five kilometers north of the city of Rishikesh. It is said that the Hindu deity Lakshmana crossed the Ganges on jute ropes at the point at which the bridge now stands. The river is sacred to Hinduism and flows for 1, miles 2, kilometers through India and Bangladesh.