MANGALURU: The railway police, Mangaluru, on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly sexually harassing a woman passenger in a train from Kerala bound for Mangaluru.
Shaiju,40, a resident of Kozhikode and a carpenter, reportedly tried to sexually harass a student who was travelling from Varkala in the train.
The student captured his act on her cellphone. After alighting at Mangaluru Central Railway Station, she filed a complaint with the railway police. The incident took place on February 19 in a sleeper class coach.
The police arrested him on Tuesday, and produced him before the court. He is booked under IPC Section 354(A) (assaulting woman with intent to outrage her modesty).
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)