A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable, who was involved in molestation and recording video of a girl in Southern Express on Saturday, has been arrested.
A complaint of eve-teasing in this regard was reported with the Bhopal GRP. According to the police, the victim boarded the train at Vidisha and when she entered coach number S-10, where the CRPF personnel Dinesh and Dharmendra, who were travelling with a CRPF company.
The constables started to pass obscene comment and made her video. SHO of GRP Bhopal DK Joshi told that a company of CRPF personnel was scheduled to arrive at Bhopal from Delhi and was travelling in Southern Express. When the victim came down from the train at Vidisha with her friend, two CRPF personnel started staring and teasing them and later started making a video clip.
The victim objected the eve-teasing and told not to make the video but the accused continued with the act. The other passengers supported the victims and quarrel started between them.
When the train reached the Bhopal station, the victim lodged a complaint with the Bhopal GRP. After preliminary investigation, the police have registered a case under section 354, 323 and 34 of the IPC and started searching for the other miscreant, said Joshi.
Joshi told that the amendments under section 354 of the IPC included staring at the victim and the clip was captured with ill intention by the accused.
Dinesh was arrested while Dharmendra managed to escape. The nabbed accused is head constable while the absconding accused is a Sepoy with the CRPF. The victim works for a private firm in MP Nagar and lives in Vidisha. She commutes daily to Bhopal to work in a private company.