A local leader of the AIUDF was arrested on Saturday from inside the Rajdhani Express at Guwahati railway station for allegedly molesting his 12-year-old domestic help last year, the police said. Acting on a tip-off, the police captured the absconding leader Saifuiddin Ahmed while he was to travel to New Delhi in the Rajdhani Express.

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The parents of the girl had filed an FIR on September 7, 2013 alleging that Ahmed had assaulted and molested their daughter who was working as a maid in his house at Sibsagar. Ahmed had unsuccessfully contested the 2011 Assembly polls on an AIUDF ticket from Sibsagar.