Man booked for sexually harassing mall co-worker

GURUGRAM: A Gurugram-based sales executive, who works with a garment store in a mall, was booked on Friday for allegedly sexually harassing and stalking a 30-year-old woman, a co-worker, the police said.

According to the police, the woman, a resident of Delhi, met the man in the mall about four years ago. They exchanged numbers and the man proposed her for marriage but the woman declined, after which he allegedly started forcing her to marry him and sexually harassed her in the mall over the last several months, police said.

On February 1, the accused allegedly snatched her mobile phone in the morning as soon as she entered the store and threatened her to marry him. The woman alleged that when she asked him to return her mobile phone, he threatened to kill her.

Shamsher Singh, the assistant commissioner of police (crime), said that the accused had been stalking her for several months.

A case was registered on Friday against the man under sections 354 D and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, said police. The accused is yet to be arrested.

In the FIR filed at the DLF Phase 3 police station, the woman stated that he is forcing her to meet him every day after work. She is a single mother and fears for her and her son’s life.

The woman said in her complaint that the accused follows her when she leaves the store in the mall.