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Eight persons were arrested on Monday, 25 June in Assam's Nagaon district over a suspected case of moral policing wherein a couple was beaten up by villagers for having illicit relations, police said.
Shankar Brata Raimedhi, Superintendent of Police of Nagaon district, told reporters that the police picked up eight persons from different parts of the district in connection with the case.
He said the police were on the lookout for some more persons whose names had cropped up during interrogation.
The SP appealed to the people to maintain calm and inform the police if they had any grievance against anyone.
He also asked people not to take law into their hands.
Raimedhi said the case was being monitored by senior officers and the situation in the village was under control.
The woman's head was reportedly shaved by other women of the village.
The police rescued the critically injured couple on Sunday after being informed about the incident. The victims were later admitted in a hospital.
A case was registered by the police and multiple raids were conducted, leading to the arrest of the eight persons.
On 8 June, two friends – Nilotpal Das and Abhijeet Nath – had gone to a picnic spot of Kangthilangso waterfalls under Dokmoka police station in Karbi Anglong. While returning, their vehicle was stopped and they were lynched on the suspicion of being child lifters.
On 18 June, a mob had attacked a couple, who they claimed were unmarried and that it was improper of them to move around together, in Pukhurpur village of Rongjuli area in Goalpara district.
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