Overview
- A woman reported that the man seated next to her repeatedly touched her inappropriately during the Hanoi to Kolkata flight.
- She was in seat 26A and the accused in 26B, and she told police she first thought the contact was accidental before concluding it was deliberate after three to four instances.
- After she raised an alarm, the cabin crew intervened and moved the accused to another seat for the remainder of the flight.
- On landing at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, CISF personnel detained the man and handed him to the airport police.
- Police registered a case for molestation and verbal abuse, identified the accused with variant names as Abdur Rahim or Md Abdur Rahman from Bhagalpur, and produced him before a Barasat court while the inquiry continues.