Police in Bihar’s Jamui district on Monday arrested three persons while a search was on for others allegedly involved in the harassment of a boy and a girl by a roadside, a video of which has triggered outrage on social media.

Jamui SP Bishwajeet Dayal said the incident took place on September 19 evening and a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by a woman officer, was conducting raids to arrest all the culprits. “An SIT headed by Sub-Divisional Police Officer Deepti Monali has been set up. The accused have not been named by the victims in the FIR lodged at Jamui police station, but we have identified around seven perpetrators with the help of the video clip. Three persons have been arrested, and raids are being conducted to nab the others,” Dayal said.