Bihar: Gangrape survivor arrested after demanding the presence of social workers in district court

'A 22-year-old woman who filed a police complaint alleging gangrape in Bihar’s Araria district has been arrested on charges of disrupting court proceedings on July 10. She had demanded the presence of social workers during the recording of her statement before the district judge, said members of the Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, a non-profit organisation that helped her through the process of filing a first information report with the Araria police. Two social workers who had accompanied her to the court – Kalyani Badola and Tanmay Nivedita – have also been arrested. All three are in judicial custody at a jail in Samastipur district, 250 km from Araria. Four unidentified men allegedly raped the woman on the night of July 6. They are yet to be arrested. A fifth accused, who was known to the woman and who allegedly abetted the sexual assault, has been arrested...'