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3 held for assault on Adivasi girl

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Guwahati: Horrific pictures in local dailies of a naked young girl being chased and assaulted in full view of the public during Saturday’s retaliatory attack on Adivasi protesters by some residents in the city prompted the police on Monday to arrest three youths.

Senior Superintendent of Police Surendra Kumar told The Hindu that a case was registered against the three on charges of attempt to rape, attempt to murder and outraging the modesty of the girl.

He said the photographs and video footage of the perpetrators involved in the incident matched with the accused.

They would be produced in court on Tuesday.

Other photographs showed the girl, who was disrobed by the attackers, pleading for mercy with folded hands.

Some onlookers came to the rescue of the traumatised girl, who was running to save her life, and gave her clothes. Another person helped her hide herself inside an empty bus vandalised by the Adivasi protesters.

Police also arrested five senior leaders of the All-Adivasi Students Association of Assam (AASAA) and they were sent to jail on charges of causing communal violence and damage to public property, among others.

The student body took out a rally on Saturday to press for inclusion of Santal Adivasis and tea tribes in the list of Scheduled Tribes.

Locals clashed with the rallyists when they broke security cordons and went on the rampage.

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