A Female Passenger Molested On Mumbai-Guwahati IndiGo Flight | PERFECT WOMAN FASHION AND LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE

A Female Passenger Molested On Mumbai-Guwahati IndiGo Flight | PERFECT WOMAN FASHION AND LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE

A man accused of groping a female passenger on board a Mumbai-Guwahati IndiGo flight, incident happened during the late-night flight.

The accused was handed over to the Guwahati police on arrival after a complaint was received against him from another passenger for alleged sexual harassment, the airliner said on Sunday.

According to the spokesperson, the incident occurred on board flight 6E 5319 on September 10, and the accused was handed over to Assam Police after the plane landed in Guwahati following a complaint for alleged sexual harassment filed by the victim.

Following the incident, the airline said that a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against the man and he was handed over to the police in Guwahati. The IndiGo flight 6E-5319 departed from Mumbai at around 9 pm and reached the destination around 15 minutes post- midnight. This is the fourth case of sexual harassment reported in the last two months, involving passengers on-board flights.

Speaking to Times of India, the woman said that she was seated on an aisle seat in the flight and had fallen asleep after the cabin lights were dimmed. She had lowered the armrests before dozing off but woke up to find the armrest up and her male co-passenger leaning close to her.

She said, “I found it weird because I distinctly remembered putting the hand down. Half-asleep, I didn’t think too much about it, put the armrest down again and went back to sleep”. On waking up after some time, she found the male passenger’s hands on her but since his eyes were shut she said that she did not want to jump to conclusions. Thereby, she waited while keeping his eyes half-closed and pretending to be asleep.

On finding the co-passenger groping her and touching her inappropriately in a couple of minutes, the woman said that she wanted to scream but couldn’t as she ‘froze’. While narrating the incident, she said that she gathered courage and when the man tried to grope her again she pulled his hand away and screamed. She then turned the seat lights on and called the cabin crew. The woman added, “He started apologising for what he did, while I was shouting, crying and narrating the incident”.