THRISSUR: The youth who assaulted Child line workers and eloped with a minor girl was arrested. Deepak (20), a native of Chhattisgarh and a sixteen-year-old girl were arrested from Pudukkad junction in Thrissur.

Yesterday morning, the two were seen in a suspicious situation on the third platform of the railway station. The railway police brought them to the Child Line office. In the interrogation, it was first said that they were siblings. But when Child line workers contacted her relatives, they found that the girl had absconded from there. At this time, the young man attacked the Child Line workers with a broken beer bottle and then ran away with the girl.

Both were found after a hectic twenty-hour search. They were identified by a home guard. Both were taken to Pudukkad station.