India, Aug. 7 -- The Tripura police have arrested the man accused of molesting an 18-year-old female student in a bus in Tripura's Sepahijala district, which later led a group of people to attack the bus, police said. Four persons, including a policeman, were injured in the violence, and prohibitory orders were clamped in the area to bring the situation under control.

Police said the suspect, a daily wage labourer, was arrested on Wednesday and produced before a local court on Thursday.

Following the alleged molestation on Tuesday evening, an angry mob attacked the bus after it reached Bishramganj motor stand.

The student, an undergraduate student in Guwahati, had landed at Agartala airport on Tuesday and was returning home on the bus ...