Imphal, Aug. 22 -- Manipur police arrested a non-local cobbler on the charge of sexually assaulting a minor girl student at a rented house in Uripok assembly constituency in Imphal West district, officials reported on Friday.

The alleged accused has been identified as one Girish Kumar Das (43), a native of Begusarai Phulwaria, Bihar, currently staying in a rented house at Uripok, Imphal.

GK Das, son of Shanker Das, was arrested by a team from the Imphal police station at his rented house on August 17.

An arrest was made based on the complaint lodged by the mother of the victim, the police reported. According to a complaint filed with the police by the victim's mother, on 17 August, lateafternoon, her daughter, a school-going student, w...