India, July 21 -- The Bhubaneswar police have arrested Udit Pradhan, the Odisha state unit chief of the National Students' Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of Congress, on Sunday evening on charges of sexually assaulting a young woman after allegedly drugging her with soft drink in a hotel in the city.

The survivor in her first information report (FIR) said that she, accompanied by a friend and a classmate, was introduced to Pradhan at Master Canteen Square during an outing on March 25 and the group later went to a hotel in Nayapalli in Pradhan's car.

"He sat next to me and touched me inappropriately. They then took me to a hotel, checked into a room, and started drinking. I don't drink, so I refused. Udit Pradhan offered me a gl...