Mumbai entrepreneur sexually assaults woman in building elevator, police file case

Mumbai:

Police have registered an FIR against a Mumbai-based entrepreneur and partner of a firm for allegedly molesting a 43-year-old woman in a building elevator, an official said on Tuesday.

The FIR was lodged against the 38-year-old man following a complaint by the woman, who works as a wedding planner, alleging that he groped her in the elevator on April 29 this year.

No arrests have been made so far, the official said.

According to the FIR, the accused and the victim know each other as they are residents of the first and second floors of the high-rise building in Khar.

“Apparently he followed the woman in the elevator. He spoke to her in obscene language and groped her, which shocked and frightened her. She started to cry. After she came out of the elevator, she told her family members about her ordeal,” police said.

A case has been registered under Sections 354 (insulting the modesty of a woman), 509 (word, gesture or act with intent to insult the modesty of a woman) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and the investigation is ongoing Gang. said the officer.

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