KOLKATA: Three persons had been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a girl whilst she was once travelling in a bus in the town's Pragati Maidan house overdue Saturday evening, police mentioned on Sunday.
The incident happened at round 10pm on Saturday, when police heard a girl's cry for help and stopped a personal bus passing during the EM Bypass in the Pragati Maidan Police Station limits, a Kolkata Police official mentioned.
Police found that a crew of guys had been having an altercation with a girl who was once screaming for help, the police official mentioned.
"They were hurling verbal abuses and were making lewd comments aimed at the woman while she was screaming for help. She was travelling from Malancha to Howrah. These men started making lewd gestures and comments after the bus reached Ghatakpur when passengers were few. When the bus driver and the conductor did not react, the woman started protesting," he mentioned.
Initial investigations printed that the accused trio Sheikh Pervez, Sheikh Mujibar and Sheikh Aftab work for a leather-based processing plant in Ghatakpur house and commute in a bus of the same direction almost on a regular basis.
"The victim also takes the bus quite frequently and these men had been targeting her for quite sometime. Last night, they were asking for the woman's phone number and trying to befriend her," the officer mentioned.
The trio tried to escape however the police nabbed them and in spite of everything arrested them on the basis of a grievance lodged by means of the sufferer, he mentioned.
The incident happened at round 10pm on Saturday, when police heard a girl's cry for help and stopped a personal bus passing during the EM Bypass in the Pragati Maidan Police Station limits, a Kolkata Police official mentioned.
Police found that a crew of guys had been having an altercation with a girl who was once screaming for help, the police official mentioned.
"They were hurling verbal abuses and were making lewd comments aimed at the woman while she was screaming for help. She was travelling from Malancha to Howrah. These men started making lewd gestures and comments after the bus reached Ghatakpur when passengers were few. When the bus driver and the conductor did not react, the woman started protesting," he mentioned.
Initial investigations printed that the accused trio Sheikh Pervez, Sheikh Mujibar and Sheikh Aftab work for a leather-based processing plant in Ghatakpur house and commute in a bus of the same direction almost on a regular basis.
"The victim also takes the bus quite frequently and these men had been targeting her for quite sometime. Last night, they were asking for the woman's phone number and trying to befriend her," the officer mentioned.
The trio tried to escape however the police nabbed them and in spite of everything arrested them on the basis of a grievance lodged by means of the sufferer, he mentioned.
Kolkata: 3 held for sexually harassing woman
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