FB friend booked for molesting woman

GURUGRAM: A female employee of a private airline company in New Delhi lodged a complaint, on Thursday, against a man whom she had met on a social networking website, for allegedly sexually harassing her after luring her into a hotel room, said the police.

According to the police, the woman in her mid 20s, a resident of Chandigarh, met a man from Kanganheri, Delhi, on Facebook about seven months ago. After a brief period of courtship, they exchanged numbers. The woman even went to Mumbai to attend a birthday party of the man’s relative.

The police said, on May 3, the accused picked her up from a metro station in Dwarka, Delhi, and took her to a hotel on a motorcycle, at around 2 pm, in Palam Vihar, Gurugram, on the pretext of taking her to a restaurant.

Vikram Nehra, station house officer(sho), Palam Vihar police station, said that the accused had booked a room at the hotel, and after taking her to the room, he allegedly molested her. In the FIR filed at the Palam Vihar police station, the victim stated that she had hid in the bathroom in order to save herself. But the accused managed to enter the bathroom using a duplicate key and tried to force himself upon her.

“The accused tried to smother me and even threatened to kill me. He told me not to inform anyone about the incident. Later, I returned to Dwarka by taking an auto rickshaw,” said the woman in the police complaint.

After the incident, the accused repeatedly tried to contact the woman over phone, promising to marry her if she maintained a ‘sexual relationship’ with him. The woman also stated in her complaint, that the accused had been stalking her since the incident and followed her when she left from her house in Dwarka.

A case has been registered against the man under sections 354 A (sexual harassment and punishment for sexual harassment), 354 D (stalking), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC, said the police. The accused is yet to be arrested.