Army Officer's Woman Friend Allegedly Assaulted, 5 Odisha Cops Suspended

Police said the woman and her fianc, who is attached to the 22 Sikh Regiment in Kolkata, were arrested after attacking an on-duty officer while drunk.

An Army officer's fiancé - arrested last week and released on bail Wednesday on charges of assaulting cops and vandalising police property - has now said she was sexually harassed, and her partner illegally jailed, while trying to file a complaint at a police station near Odisha's Bhubaneshwar.

Five cops, including an Inspector-rank officer, have been suspended pending a disciplinary procedure for "gross misconduct", Odisha Police HQ said hours after the alleged incident.

The woman has said she sought to file a complaint at the Bharatpur Police Station after she and her fiancé fought off a group of men who attacked them in public late Sunday night, "when I (she was accompanied by her partner) was going home after closing my restaurant at 1 am".