India, July 17 -- Four people have been arrested for allegedly obstructing a government school teacher on election duty, humiliating and preventing her from carrying out the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the Walled City earlier this month, police said on Thursday.

Deputy commissioner of police (central) Rohit Rajbir Singh said the accused have been identified as Mohammad Sabreen, 44; Ateeq ur Rehman, 58; Mohammad Asif, 50; and Mohammad Aftab, 44, all residents of the Turkman Gate area.

According to police, the complainant, a 30-year-old resident of Old Delhi, who teaches special education at a government school and is deployed as a Booth Level Officer (BLO), alleged that on July 5, while distributing enumeration forms in ...