Brahmagiri: Tension ran high in Brahmagiri area after the students of Brahmeswar College staged a road blockade on Brahmagiri-Delang road this morning demanding immediate arrest of a non-student for misbehaving a Plus Two girl student by passing lewd comments and attacking her with a blade recently.
The students later withdrew the blockade after police assured them to arrest the accused in three days.
As per the complaint lodged by the victim girl student in Brahmagiri police station, she was on the way to her college on October 8 when one Sambheswar Boral of Gatukhuli village allegedly manhandled her after passing lewd comments. While she tried to escape, he attacked her hand with a blade. The accused later fled the area as the victim shouted for help. The locals later rushed her to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Protesting the inaction of the police in not arresting the accused after 48 hours of the incident, irate students of Brahmeswar College staged road blockade on Dharmakirti bridge by burning tyres demanding immediate arrest of the accused, adequate protection to the girl students and giving justice to the victim.
Following information, Brahmagiri police rushed to the spot and pacified the students with an assurance to arrest the accused within three days to which the students later withdrew the strike at about 3 PM.
“I told the students that the police has registered a case and efforts are on to trace out the accused, who is at large, within three days,” IIC of Brahmagiri police station Biranchi Narayan Das told media persons.
Vehicular traffic had come to a grinding half for about four hours due to the road blockade by the students.