A law college principal from Assam's Guwahati has been arrested on charges of molesting his 26-year-old daughter several years ago.

The victim registered a complaint with the All Women Police Station against the man, identified as Ashutosh Kundu, the principal of BRM Government Law College in Guwahati. The police arrested him on Sunday based on his daughter's complaint. "The accused was arrested following complaints by his daughter. The complainant says that she was sexually assaulted around 10 years ago, but she hadn't complained then as she was very young," Nikumoni Bhuyan, in-charge of all-women police station at Panbazar, reportedly said.

Following the victim's complaint on November 30, an FIR was registered against the man under sections 376, 354, 352, 506 and 294 of IPC for rape, criminal assault to outrage modesty, criminal intimidation, and obscene acts. The accused has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.