Bhubaneswar, Sept. 23 -- Three men were arrested in Odisha's Dhenkanal district for allegedly harassing and assaulting a young couple returning from a Shiva shrine last week, police said. A video of the incident was later circulated widely on social media.

Dhenkanal Superintendent of Police (SP) Abhinav Sonkar identified the arrested men as Saroj Nayak and Samir Nayak, both from Bania village, and Sangram Rath of Raipur village. They were booked under several provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including those relating to sexual harassment, causing hurt, criminal intimidation and criminal defamation, as well as Section 67 of the Information Technology (IT) Act (concerning the electronic transmission or publication of obscene...