Andhra Pradesh: Professor held after SOS to Disha app

ELURU: The Andhra Pradesh police chased a Visakhapatnam-Vijayawada bus and intercepted it to arrest a professor after a woman co-passenger send an SOS through the newly launched Disha app alleging that she was being sexually harassed in the APSRTC bus.
No sooner the SOS reached the Disha police headquarters in Vijayawada, the police in Eluru was alerted to intercept the bus that would soon pass through the town. It was 4.21 am and the Disha police acted swiftly to stop the bus and arrest the man, who was later identified as a university professor.
This was the first distress call through Disha App after it was launched by Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy last week. Eluru Three Town police registered a zero FIR and arrested the accused.
According to police, an incident of outraging the modesty of a woman occurred in the early hours of Tuesday at Kalaparru toll plaza.
The complainant, a government employee, was travelling from Visakhapatnam to Vijayawada in APSRTC bus (AP 29 Z 2624), when the accused, Kalothu Basavaiah, assistant professor in chemistry at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, allegedly misbehaved with her by placing hands abusively on her body.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)