A 45-year-old chartered accountant from Kharghar has been booked by the Ulwe police for allegedly molesting a 20-year-old woman, also a resident of Kharghar, while travelling in a Cityflo passenger bus along the Atal Setu from Navi Mumbai towards Mumbai. The incident occurred on Friday between 9:30 am and 10:00 am.
Victim lodges complaint at Sewri police station
The victim woman lodged a complaint at the Sewri police station in Mumbai after she reached her destination. She alleged that on Friday morning, she was travelling in the Cityflo passenger bus from Navi Mumbai towards Mumbai. When the bus was plying along the Atal Setu, a man repeatedly touched her inappropriately, which offended her and she confronted him.
Case transferred to Ulwe police station
As the incident occurred when the bus reached about 300 metres after crossing the toll plaza near Shivaji Nagar in the Ulwe node, the zero case was transferred to the Ulwe police station in the afternoon, informed PSI Rama Dhavare of the Ulwe police station.
PSI Dhavare said, "Subsequently, an FIR was registered against the accused CA, who was booked under the relevant section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for the offence of assault or use of criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty. As the BNS section invoked against the accused attracts punishment for less than seven years if found guilty in court, as per the provision of the law, he was not arrested but served with a notice under the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) directing him to co-operate in the police investigation whenever summoned for inquiry at the police station and remain present for court hearing."
