Kolkata:

A case was filed against a senior executive of a Jindal Group company for allegedly harassing a female co-passenger on a Kolkata-Abu Dhabi flight, an officer of the Bidhannagar City Police said on Sunday.

The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint lodged by the woman’s parents at the Airport police station on the northern outskirts of Kolkata on Saturday, he said.

The police officer said that the victim passenger has also emailed her complaint regarding the matter which they are treating as a formal one.

“We have started an investigation into the matter,” he said, adding that they were planning a video conference with her to record her statement.

The female passenger, in a series of posts on X, had alleged that the executive showed her some obscene videos by calling them movie clips, triggering an outrage.

A case was filed under BNS sections 74 (assault or use of criminal force with intent to outrage modesty) and 75 (uttering words or making gestures or exhibiting any object in any form insulting the modesty of a woman), the officer said.

On Friday, Jindal Steel and Power Chairman Naveen Jindal promised to investigate allegations of harassment against the executive, saying his group has a zero-tolerance policy in such matters.

The executive has been sent on administrative leave and a third-party investigation has been started to probe the matter, a statement by a Jindal Group company said on Saturday.

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Nagpur:

A 32-year-old man was arrested by police here on Tuesday for allegedly molesting a woman co-passenger on a Pune-Nagpur flight of a private airline, an official said.

The alleged incident took place on Monday, he said.

The accused was identified as Feroze Shaikh, resident of Kondhwa area of Pune and an engineer by profession.

The 40-year-old woman complainant, a resident of Chandrapur, was on her way to Nagpur to perform the last rites of her father, the official of Sonegaon police station said.

The accused allegedly made unwanted advances towards her after the plane landed at the Nagpur airport.

A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawan who was on board intervened and restrained Feroze Shaikh before reporting the incident to police, the official said.

Feroze Shaikh was subsequently booked under Indian Penal Code sections 354 (assaulting or using criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage her modesty), 354 (a) (sexual harassment) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and further probe was on, he said. 

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