A 32-year-old man was arrested early on Monday in connection with the rape and racially aggravated assault of a 20-year-old woman of Indian origin in a quiet suburb of Walsall in England’s West Midlands on Saturday night.

The West Midlands Police said the man was taken into custody from a nearby address after investigators received a tip-off linking him to CCTV footage released a day earlier. The suspect, described to be of Caucasian descent, remains in police detention on charges of rape and racially aggravated assault.

The assault allegedly occurred around 7.15 pm (BST) on October 25, when the victim, identified as a Punjabi student recently settled in the United Kingdom (UK), was walking alone through a dimly lit street. The police said the attack was accompanied by the use of racial

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