47-year-old professor arrested for sexually assaulting 24-year-old lady doctor on Delhi-Mumbai flight
As per the report, the incident took place on Wednesday. The accused professor was seated next to the 24-year-old victim on the flight, which took off at 5.30 am from Delhi. According to the lady doctor's allegation, the accused made unwanted physical contact with her before the plane was set to touch down at the Mumbai airport, a police official told PTI.
After two passengers got into a fight, the victim alerted the flight's crew, who then stepped in to mediate. They rushed to the Sahar police station once the plane touched down at the Mumbai airport. According to the police official, a case of sexual harassment was filed against the professor based on the victim's accusation, and he was detained.
He stated that an investigation was ongoing and that the accused was brought before a judge, which granted him bail. Incidents involving unruly passengers and sexual harassment in flights have been increasing in recent times. For onstance, on 26 November, 2022, a man reportedly flashed his private part and urinated on a 70-year-old woman in an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi and another on 6 December, 2022 in which a man again urinated on the seat of his fellow woman passenger on an Air India flight from Paris to New Delhi.
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