UP man arrested for sexually harassing Malaysian medical student in flight

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Jan 29, 2014 :  Police have arrested Ankur Agarwal (36)  hailing from Bareili in Uttar Pradesh on the charges of  sexually  harassing a Malaysian student in a Jet Airways flight from Bangalore to Mangalore on January 28, Tuesday morning.

The victim  is a final semester student of a medical college at Derlakatte.

It is learnt the accused Ankur was seated next to the Malaysian student  in the flight that left Bangalore to Mangalore on Tuesday morning when he molested her. As soon as the flight landed at Mangalore airport, the young woman was seen crying.  She revealed the harassment when airport officials enquired her. However, by then the accused had quietly slipped out of the airport.

But the airport officials  telephoned him and directed him to return to the airport. Though Ankur did as he was told, he denied the allegation. However, the girl has lodged a complaint with the Bajpe police alleging that the accused who was seated next to her had placed his hands on her posing as if he was asleep. But the youth when enquired by the police stuck to his earlier statement and even said that  his hands might have touched the girl during sleep.

It has been gathered that Ankur was a quality checker in a Bangalore Hospital of  a Manipal health institution and is a married man with two kids.  It is learnt, he had come to Mangalore  for auditing at his institution. He is  now facing charges under IPC Section 354.

He has been subject to medical examination and produced before the court. He has now been remanded to judicial custody.