India, May 11 -- A tea break at a roadside stall in Delhi turned into horror for two women as verbal altercation over being catcalled escalated into a physical attack and racial abuse. The two women alleged that their clothes were torn, they were hit with bamboo sticks and faced racial abuse by a group of men near the tea stall on Sunday morning, after the objected to catcalling.

While earlier reports said that the two women were from northeast, the police has now confirmed that one of them is from the northeastern state of Assam and the other one is from Bihar.

The incident was reported from southeast Delhi's Nehru Place area, police said, PTI reported, adding that four people have been identified in the case and two have been detained...