Kolkata, Feb 14 || A male passenger was arrested at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on Saturday for allegedly molesting a woman co-passenger onboard a Hanoi-Kolkata flight, police said.
According to the complaint, the man, who hails from Bihar, kept touching a female passenger inappropriately as she was seated next to him.
Police said the young woman boarded a private airline flight from Hanoi in Vietnam bound for Kolkata. When the plane was preparing to land in Kolkata, the Bihar resident allegedly started harassing the young woman sitting next to him. The young woman alleged that the accused touched her inappropriately.
Distressed by the incident, the young woman raised an alarm inside the aircraft. The cabin crew immediately intervened and moved the passenger to another seat to ensure her safety.
After the flight landed at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, the crew handed the accused passenger over to Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officials. Later, the CISF officials handed the passenger over to the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport police station.