Digboi, Aug. 9 -- Tensions ran high in Pengaree Brahmajan under Digboi police station in Assam's Tinsukia district on Saturday afternoon after a well-respected headmaster of a school was arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Brahmajan ME school headmaster Tanka Newar was arrested under the POCSO Act on Thursday prompting an unusual protest from students, guardians, and staff members of his school.

According to witnesses, hundreds of students in their school uniforms gathered outside the police station, chanting slogans demanding Newar's release. The students, many of them minors, also spontaneously addressed the media on school grounds, expressing disbelief over the allegations.

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