A 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly molesting a woman passenger at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday. The accused was identified as Shravan Kumar.He works as a loader with a private company at the airport.
According to the police, the incident took place at Terminal-3, around 11pm after the victim had landed in India from Dubai. While the victim was waiting for her brother to pick her up, the accused kept staring at her to which she objected. He then started abusing and shouting at her. The victim caught hold of the accused, thrashed him and alerted the police. The accused was so drunk that he kept abusing the woman even in the presence of the police officers. The incident was captured by an onlooker. The video clearly shows the woman thrashing the victim and arguing with the police officers. The woman in the video said that a rape had just occurred in the Capital and a drunken man is sitting outside the international airport during the night making it more unsafe. “The policemen are sitting inside the booth and this drunken man is sitting at the airport eve-teasing a woman. She claimed that the police officials did not take any action and were
mere spectators. The police did not help,” she is seen saying in the video.
The accused was arrested. A medical examination of revealed that the accused was in an inebriated state. A case under Section 354 (Molestation) and 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) was registered.