Bhubaneswar, June 22 -- Five persons were arrested for allegedly assaulting a Kerala-based labourer on Sunday in Odisha's Sambalpur town amid suspicions that he was a kidnapper, police said on Monday.

According to police the arrests were made after viral videos of the assault appeared on social media.

The victim, Vishnu Sibu, a resident of Alleppey in Kerala, was rescued by a police team on Sunday and admitted to hospital. He was later discharged and sent back to Kerala on Monday.

Sambalpur additional superintendent of police (SP) Ajay Kumar Mishra said that Vishnu earlier worked as a welding labourer under a contractor in Bargarh district. He was unemployed for the past few months and had been looking for work in Sambalpur for nearly ...