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A 32-year-old woman confronted a 60-year-old businessman, who allegedly groped her repeatedly on an Indigo flight from Mumbai to Bhubaneswar, and then videotaped him. She lodged a police complaint and posted the two videos on the social media. The police arrested the man after the plane landed at Bhubaneswar airport; however, they let him go after serving a notice to him. The police said he'll have to appear before the court once the date for hearing is finalised. "Yes we can allow the accused to go home in cases which have punishment (of) less than seven years,"  NDTV  quoted a police officer as saying. In the two videos that the woman later posted on YouTube, the man is seen asking for forgiveness and saying that he had made a mistake. "For touching you, I want to give a written apology," says the businessman Ravin Jhunjhunwalafrom Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in one of the two videos. When the woman asked him why he had done such a shameful thing, he rep...

Kolkata: A 50-year-old man was arrested on Monday at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport for allegedly molesting a female co-passenger on board a plane. According to the police the accused identified as Sanjay Kanad and the 30-year-old victim both are residents of Delhi and had boarded the early morning flight to Kolkata on Monday. Kanad was sitting next to the victim. As soon as the flight went mid-air the victim complained the Indigo Airline staff that she was molested by her co-passenger. The complaint was made to the captain of plane who made a different seating arrangement for both. After the plane landed and a formal complaint was registered at the NSCBI airport police station at Kolkata International Airport. Kanad was booked under the relevant sections of molestation and will be produced before a court later in the day. A year ago in a similar incident happened in flight where a 62-year-old businessman on flight had allegedly molested a woman a...