Police have arrested 43-year-old Sadik Mansuri of Tilathi Koiladi Rural Municipality-2 Launiya on the charge of physically assaulting 25-year-old Sanjudevi Mandal causing her to miscarry.

The victim told INSEC that Mansuri physically assaulted her when she requested him not to fish and graze animals at a paddy field in Launiya. The victim started bleeding after being assaulted and it was later found after visiting Gajendranarayan Singh hospital in Rajbiraj, that she had miscarried. Villagers had first tried to settle the case without involving police in the village. She filed a complaint against the accused on September 19.