After the huge national outrage against the Army man’s attempt to molest and rape a girl, an arrest has been made today by the local Police.
On Friday, a Patrolling Team of Army Personnel leaded by a Lance Naik spotted a Teenaged Girl in Forest collecting Firewood.
“Four army personnel forcefully took her into a forest. When she started shouting, people from the area intervened and caught one of the jawans. They beat him up and handed him over to the police,” Sivsagar Superintendent of Police Akhilesh Prasad Singh told IANS.
Other Army personnel posted in the Nitaipukhuri camp managed to flee from the spot.The area is flood prone and militant-infested for which the camp of the Army was set up.
“The jawan has been arrested and we have registered a case of attempt to rape,” he said.
He did not disclose the jawan’s identity. The army has not commented on the incident.
The incident comes days after a young woman was molested by a large group of men outside a pub in Guwahati, leading to outrage across the nation.