Overview
- The complaint by a 24-year-old crew member, which she filed after the plane landed in Bengaluru, describes an incident Monday around 8:15 p.m. on flight GF-280 from Bahrain.
- She told police the passenger moved his hand from under a blanket and touched her waist while she was working, and she said she warned him to stop.
- Police identified the accused in reports as Jacob Alexander, a 63-year-old passenger from Kerala.
- The FIR records that he denied any misconduct and called the contact friendly, and it notes the flight’s captain questioned him during the journey.
- Officers opened a case under Section 75(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which covers sexual harassment, and they have not said whether they have questioned or arrested the accused.