2 youths arrested for making racist comment against North East student

When Haokip objected to it, the accused also passed racist comments at him after which a heated argument broke out and a police complaint was lodged.

Both the accused, who are civil services aspirants and working in private firms, have been booked under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, police said.

There have been a series of such incidents in the city where people from north-east have been targeted in the last over two months.

A 19-year-old student from Arunanchal Pradesh, Nido Tania, who was pursuing graduation first year from a private university, was allegedly beaten to death by some shopkeepers at Lajpat Nagar market in south Delhi on January 29.