A teenaged girl was pulled by her hair, lifted up, thrown down, beaten up, thrashed, molested, groped, slapped and stripped in full public view for 30 minutes on Monday night at a busy road near the Christian Basti area in Guwahati by a mob of around 20 men. The girl was returning home after a party at a city bar. While the Assam Police has identified twelve men from the video footage that has gone viral on the Internet, it has only managed to arrest four so far.

The Assam DGP, Jayanto N Chaudhary, however, has promised action against the accused. He said, "The girl had gone to celebrate a friend's birthday... There (at the bar) they had a fight and the management asked them to leave as they were creating a ruckus over there... they came out and some hooligans saw her and tried to take advantage of her... She was assaulted but is not hospitalised... Whatever is there in the law books, we will do accordingly thanks to the coverage of media... They have been a great help."

The girl allegedly had an altercation with a young man at the bar who had passed an obscene remark at her. The video of the incident shows around 20 men brutally assaulting the minor, pulling her hair, beating her up and trying to strip her.

One of the accused, who used to work with a private company, has reportedly been sacked and the company has filed an FIR.