Bangladeshi man held for sexually harassing flight attendant on board Muscat-Dhaka flight

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A 30-year-old Bangladeshi national was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a female flight attendant on board a Muscat-Dhaka flight travelling via Mumbai, a police official said on Friday.

The incident took place in the early hours of Thursday some time before the Vistara flight was scheduled to land at the Mumbai international airport, he said.

"The accused, identified as Mohammed Dulal, who is a Bangladeshi national, was going to Dhaka from Muscat via Mumbai on a Vistara flight. Half an hour before the plane was to land in Mumbai, Dulal got up from his seat, hugged a female flight attendant and tried to kiss her," the official said.

He also tried to flash at other cabin crew members and passengers when they tried to intervene, he said.

The accused flyer also did not listen to the flight captain when the latter was reading out a red warning card, declaring him an unruly passenger, he said.

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After landing at the Mumbai airport, the accused was handed over to security officers, who took him to the Sahar police station, the official added.

Based on a complaint lodged by the flight attendant, a first information report (FIR) under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against the accused and he was placed under arrest, he said.

He was produced in a local court, which remanded him in police custody till Friday, he said.

On April 23, a 63-year-old Swedish national was arrested for allegedly molesting a crew member onboard an IndiGo flight.

Accused Klas Erik Harald Jonas Westberg was allegedly in an inebriated state when the incident took place onboard the IndiGo 6E-1052 Bangkok-Mumbai flight.

He was accused of touching a crew member inappropriately while making an in-flight food purchase and also assaulted a co-passenger who intervened.

Westberg was handed over to Mumbai police when the flight landed in the metropolis and was booked under Indian Penal Code section 354 (molestation) and other provisions of Aircraft Act, the police official said. (With inputs from PTI)