Two men were arrested on Tuesday night for allegedly misbehaving and pushing a girl who was chatting with a friend in Dum Dum Park.

The duo allegedly beat up the friend after he protested, police said.

An officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said the girl was on her way home from a tuition class. She was accompanied by a friend. Two men confronted them on the way, asked the girl to go home, and started hurling abuses at the boy for walking “too close to the girl”.

The men claimed that they knew the girl’s family and threatened to call up her parents.

“When the girl and her friend asked them to mind their own business, they pushed the girl and beat up the boy,” said the officer.

The boy and the girl then went to the office of Biswajit Prasad, the local municipal councillor, and sought his help.

Prasad took them to Lake Town police station and helped them lodge a complaint against the assaulters.

Later at the night, a team from Lake Town police station arrested the two from a guesthouse.

The police identified the two as Subhamoy Bhattacharya and Abhro Bar.

“During questioning, Bhattacharya told us that he was celebrating his birthday at the guesthouse with his friends,” said an officer of Lake Town police station.

“When the girl and the boy came to me and showed me the photographs of the two men who assaulted them, my party workers identifed them. I got hold of their phone numbers and called one of them. The man misbehaved with me. I also informed the police that the guesthouse runs a sleaze racket and the two arrested men were part of it,” Prasad told Metro.

Amarjit Jha, the guesthouse’s owner and a BJP worker, denied the allegations.

“The arrested men had come here as customers and had booked a room to celebrate a birthday. If they misbehave with a woman outside the hotel and then get into the room, how can we be held accountable?” said Jha.