Mumbai: Police have registered an FIR against an entrepreneurial partner of a Mumbai-based firm for allegedly molesting a 43-year-old woman in a building lift, an official said on Tuesday.
An FIR was lodged against the 38-year-old man on the complaint of a woman, who worked as a wedding planner, who claimed that he had molested her in a lift on April 29 this year.
The officer said no arrests have been made yet.
According to the FIR, the accused and the victim know each other as they are residents of the first and second floors of a high-rise in Khar.
Police said, "He allegedly followed the woman in the lift. He spoke to her in obscene language and touched her, which left her shaken and scared. After coming out of the lift, she started crying and called her family." Told his story to the members."
A case has been registered under Indian Penal Code sections 354 (outraging the modesty of a woman), 50 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the dignity of a woman) and 50 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and investigation is underway. It is going on. The officer said.
An FIR was lodged against the 38-year-old man on the complaint of a woman, who worked as a wedding planner, who claimed that he had molested her in a lift on April 29 this year.
The officer said no arrests have been made yet.
According to the FIR, the accused and the victim know each other as they are residents of the first and second floors of a high-rise in Khar.
Police said, "He allegedly followed the woman in the lift. He spoke to her in obscene language and touched her, which left her shaken and scared. After coming out of the lift, she started crying and called her family." Told his story to the members."
A case has been registered under Indian Penal Code sections 354 (outraging the modesty of a woman), 50 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the dignity of a woman) and 50 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and investigation is underway. It is going on. The officer said.
