Sixteen people, including a local RJD activist, have been arrested and eight policemen suspended after a woman was assaulted and paraded naked in the state's Bhojpur district by a mob on suspicion of her involvement in alleged murder of a man, officials said.

Violence had rocked the main market area of Bihiya block of the district, after the body of 19-year-old Vimalesh Sah, who had gone missing on Sunday, was found adjacent to a railway track on Monday morning, Bhojpur SP Avakash Kumar said. Residents of Sah's native village Damodarpur had rushed to the spot upon hearing the news and some of them suspected that those living in a red light area nearby could have strangled him to death, police said. The villagers set ablaze a number of shops in the market area and assaulted many locals.