In an outrageous incident, a man reportedly exposed his genitals to a woman and touched her with them while riding in an elevator at a Delhi Metro station, police said today. According to the police, the accused, identified as 26-year-old Rajesh Kumar, was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a woman inside the lift at south Delhi’s Jasola Metro Station on April 4. Man arrested for sexually harassing woman in Delhi Metro lift.
An official said that on April 4, Kumar, who works in housekeeping at a private hospital, allegedly exposed his privates to a woman and touched her with them while riding in an elevator with her at the Jasola Metro Station. Giving details, the official said the woman, an architect by profession, objected to the man’s obscene gesture and threatened to call for help, following which the accused ran away without boarding the metro train.
Upon deboarding from the elevator, the woman narrated her ordeal to the police at the Metro station and based on her complaint an FIR was registered against the accused. The official said that Rajesh was identified with the help of local intelligence and CCTV footage at the metro station and was subsequently arrested and booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), adding that further investigation is underway.
While uncommon, sexual harassment cases on the Delhi Metro have been reported in the past too. In July last year, a 40-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a woman at the Jor Bagh metro station. The accused, identified as Manav Aggarwal, a resident of Kotla Mubarakpur, had fled to Nepal after the incident and had applied for anticipatory bail.
Police at the time said the incident came to the fore after woman narrated her ordeal on Twitter, wherein she said that the accused thrust his genitals into her face after he approached her under the pretext of locating an address.
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