Inebriated man flashes journalist on bus, arrested
The bus was packed but no one helped me even restrain the man. One man wanted me to stop hitting him. There was just one passenger who tried to help me, but that person later refused to be a witness.
THE VICTIM, in her police complaint
NEWDELHI: A drunk man allegedly flashed a 26-year-old television journalist inside a packed bus passing through south Delhi on Tuesday night, the police said on Wednesday.
The woman was returning from south Delhi’s Kapashera to her home in Sangam Vihar after work and had boarded the cluster bus, operating on route number 517, when the alleged crime happened around 9.15pm on Tuesday.
She alleged that she caught the man red-handed after which she beat him with her slippers, restrained him inside the bus and alerted the police control room.
“The bus was packed but no one even tried to help me restrain the man. One man wanted me to stop hitting him. There was just one passenger who tried to help me, but that person later refused to be a witness,” the woman alleged in her complaint.
The man was taken into custody by the staff of the police control room van that intercepted the bus near Andheria Modh, near Chhattarpur in south Delhi.
The man, Mukesh Ranjan Kumar, who works for a tent operator, was arrested and booked for molestation, deputy commissioner of police (south) Vijay Kumar said.
Outlining the incident, the woman said, “I was sitting on a seat reserved for women. The man approached me, stood very close and began staring at me and fondling himself.”
The woman said she stared back at the man, in a bid to ward him off him, but he responded by allegedly unzipping himself and flashing her— this happened somewhere between Vasant Kunj and Chhatarpur.
It was then that she decided to take him on.
“When I began beating him up, he tried to zip up his pants. But I ensured that my fellow passengers noticed his behaviour,” the woman said.
Women in the national capital regularly complain of sexual harassment on public transport or in public places — in most cases, women are allegedly groped, flashed and/or masturbated on.
In February this year, a middle-aged man was caught masturbating while seated next to a 23-year-old woman on a bus in the national Capital.
The woman, a student of Delhi University , reported the matter to police and also submitted a video of the incident as evidence.
In another incident in April 2018, an alleged serial sexual offender was arrested for masturbating in front of women after ringing their door bells in west Delhi’s Rajouri Garden, police said..