The middle-aged woman complained to the Shakespeare Sarani police station that she was molested by a man while she was walking on the street

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A senior official of a foreign Consulate office in Kolkata was allegedly molested by a man in its vicinity, police said on Saturday. The middle-aged woman complained to the Shakespeare Sarani police station that she was molested by a man while she was walking on the street on Wednesday, Joint Commissioner (crime) Praveen Tripathi said.

Acting on the woman's complaint, police ran a check of the CCTV footage and the man was identified as Rohit Agarwal, a third year commerce student of a college in south Kolkata. He was arrested on Thursday and is currently in judicial custody, Tripathi said.

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