A college student from Belghoria has alleged that a group of youths harassed her and thrashed her friend when she went out with him on a scooter looking for chapatis on Friday night.

In her complaint to police, the second-year BSc student has said a group of youths were fighting among themselves on the road near 17-Pally in Belghoria on Friday night. Trouble started when she tried to get past the group and some of them asked her to take a different route.

It was around 10pm and when she refused, the youths threatened her and her friend. When they insisted on taking the road, some of them hurled abuses at the two, she said in her complaint. One of the youths took the scooter’s keys while another slapped her, she said.

“She has said that when her friend tried to help her, some of the youths assaulted him,” an officer of Belghoria police station said. “He somehow managed to run away and alerted her mother.”

The college student said she tried calling the police helpline but the call didn’t go through. Some of the youths then snatched her phone and asked her to delete the video she had recorded of the incident, she said in her complaint.

Her mother reached the spot by then and alerted the police. By the time a team reached, the youths had fled. The woman then went to Belghoria police station to file the complaint.

The police have started a case of outraging a woman’s modesty, forcibly stopping her on the way and assaulting her and her friend against a group of “unknown youths”.