Hyderabad: A woman journalist working with a daily in Hyderabad was allegedly molested by a male co-passenger while getting down from an Indigo flight at the Shamshabad airport. The victim complained to the RGI Airport police, who registered a case and are on the job to nab the passenger.
Tweeting about the issue after complaining to the police, the woman, who is in her early 20s, said she flew to the city from Kochi in an Indigo flight (6E 6468) on Sunday noon. After landing, when she was taking her luggage from the cabin, a male co-passenger touched her inappropriately and she shouted out.
She said that the passenger, who was wearing an orange coloured T-shirt apologised and laughed, for which she shouted at him again. She said though the cabin crew saw the incident, they did not do much and asked if she was okay. Since the passenger was unapologetic she lodged a complaint with the airport police.
Confirming the incident, an airport police official said: A case has been registered under Section 354 (assault or criminal force to outrage woman’s modesty). The passenger has been identified as an AP native. Efforts are on to trace him.”
