New Delhi, March 10 -- Police on Monday apprehended four minor boys for allegedly assaulting and racially abusing a woman from Manipur and her friend inside a park in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar a day earlier, officials said.

The woman, a lawyer living in south Delhi, told HT that the boys also attempted to stab her during the assault. The incident has drawn sharp criticism from political leaders and members of the Northeast community in Delhi.

According to police, the woman and her friend were walking at Satpula Park in Malviya Nagar around 5:30pm on Sunday when a group of boys began passing sexual slurs. "When we objected, they became aggressive and called us even more aggressive sexual slurs and racist remarks. They then started phys...