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Indian police file sexual assault case against airline passenger for allegedly molesting Bollywood actress

 

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian police have filed a sexual assault case against an airline passenger after a 17-year-old Bollywood actress said the male passenger had molested her during a late New Delhi-Mumbai flight, police said on Monday.

 

Zaira Wasim was seen sobbing in a video she posted to her Instagram site after getting off a Vistara flight during which, she has alleged, the passenger sitting on the seat behind her attacked her.

 

“He kept nudging my shoulder and continued to move his foot up and down my back and neck,” Wasim said in the post. “Is this how we are going to take care of girls?”.

 

The video sparked outrage on social media, where fans came out in support of the actress, who shot to fame through her role as a child wrestler in the 2016 blockbuster Bollywood drama ‘Dangal’.

 

Police have registered a case against a man identified as Vikas Sachdeva, under Section 354 -- for assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty -- and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, a Mumbai police control room official said.

 

“We are investigating fully and will support Zaira in every way required,” said Vistara chief strategy and commercial officer Sanjiv Kapoor.

 

“We have zero tolerance for this kind of thing.”

 

Neither Sachdeva or his lawyers could be reached for comment.

 

Local media reported his wife, Divya Sachdeva, saying her husband was innocent and that ahe was returning from a funeral and had been asleep on the flight. She accused Wasim of having made the allegations for publicity.

 

A spokeswoman for the airline said it had provided details to the police and aviation authorities and its senior management had flown to Mumbai to assist Wasim in the investigation. “We are deeply concerned and regret the unfortunate experience Ms. Zaira Wasim had onboard our flight last night.”

 

India’s National Commission for Women, a government-appointed body fighting for women's rights, has asked the airline to explain why the crew did not step in to help the actress, according to local media reports.

 

“This is not done at all,” Wasim, who hails from the northern Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir, was seen saying in the video while wiping off tears. “This is not…this is not how people should be made to feel.”

 

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti tweeted she was “appalled” by the incident and hoped authorities would take swift action.

 

(Reporting by Zeba Siddiqui in Mumbai; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani and Michael Perry)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-11

[MaeJoMTB]

Sounds unlikely!

How is a passenger sitting behind going to get their foot on your back and neck?

Any photos or video evidence to support her claim? She had her phone, she must have taken photos!

 

Fidgets in the seat behind are a royal pain in the arse, but it isn't sexual assault.

Edited December 11, 2017 by MaeJoMTB

[Morch]

3 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Sounds unlikely!

How is a passenger sitting behind going to get their foot on your back and neck?

Any photos or video evidence to support her claim? She had her phone, she must have taken photos!

 

Fidgets in the seat behind are a royal pain in the arse, but it isn't sexual assault.

 

Indian male passengers often stretch their legs, resting them on the arm rest of the chair in front. Other versions include over the headrest or between the seats in front if the adjustment makes it possible. Better nowadays, but used to be a nuisance.

 

I don't know how agile the guy was, but guess she's not referring to some Kama Sutra level position.

[observer90210]

Her notoriety got her a large fuss [and big publicity] all over governance and social media....I just hope that if anything unpleasent happens to Miss or Mrs "anybody",  similar zealous steps will be taken.            

 

On the other hand was it a stardoomed 17 year old starlette, just looking for extra publicity ?!!...Nobody can say, as neither you nor I,  were there....

Edited December 11, 2017 by observer90210

[seahorse]

4 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Sounds unlikely!

How is a passenger sitting behind going to get their foot on your back and neck?

Any photos or video evidence to support her claim? She had her phone, she must have taken photos!

 

Fidgets in the seat behind are a royal pain in the arse, but it isn't sexual assault.

She captured a brief shot of his left foot on the armrest of her chair. That alone is unacceptable behaviour.

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, seahorse said:

She captured a brief shot of his left foot on the armrest of her chair. That alone is unacceptable behaviour.

It might have got a fork in it near me!

[UnkleMoooose]

She, is not pretty. At all. I can't imagine this male passenger would risk it for that.

[bert bloggs]

15 hours ago, seahorse said:

She captured a brief shot of his left foot on the armrest of her chair. That alone is unacceptable behaviour.

Unacceptable yes ,sexual ? no .

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  19 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Sounds unlikely!

How is a passenger sitting behind going to get their foot on your back and neck?

Any photos or video evidence to support her claim? She had her phone, she must have taken photos!

 

Fidgets in the seat behind are a royal pain in the arse, but it isn't sexual assault.

She captured a brief shot of his left foot on the armrest of her chair. That alone is unacceptable behaviour.

 

Deserving a case filed by the Police for assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty? 

[joeyg]

16 hours ago, seahorse said:

She captured a brief shot of his left foot on the armrest of her chair. That alone is unacceptable behaviour.

This is ok though.  No problem... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dowry-death-One-bride-burnt-every-hour/articleshow/11644691.cms

[milwaukeeboy]

Me, too.

[joeyg]

Nothing ta see here.  Just keep moving right along now. India burning brides and ancient practice is on the rise.

Bangalore: It was after sunset on a Sunday last November when Sushila found her daughter Laxmi lying naked on the front step of the house she shared with her husband and two children on the outskirts of Bangalore.

Laxmi had burns to more than 80 per cent of her body and in the darkness Sushila could hear more than she could see.

 

"I heard her crying, she was in agony, but I didn't know how bad it was," says Sushila. "There was no one to help her, no one wanted to come to her. I was the only person she could call for help and I live 12 kilometres away."

Laxmi was eventually taken to the Victoria Hospital in central Bangalore, which has a 50-bed burns ward, one of the most advanced in the country.

She survived three days, enough time to describe to police how she came to be doused in kerosene by her mother-in-law and set alight by her husband.

 

Bride-burning, as this type of crime is most commonly referred to, accounts for the death of at least one woman every hour in India, more than 8000 women a year.

 

"We also call it dowry death," says Donna Fernandes, the founder of Vimochana, a women's rights organisation established in Bangalore in 1975 with the aim of preventing violent against women.

"The husband's family believes they have not received enough money for their son at the time of the wedding, perhaps because they are of a higher caste or some such reason, and that's when the harassment starts."

 

Often, says Fernandes, the husband's family begin pressuring the wife's family right after the wedding.

"They start asking for cash, or gold, or consumer goods like washing machines or televisions. Whatever it is they believe is owed to them or was promised to them, luxury goods that they can get the bride's family to pay for."

In many cases the husband's family decide after the marriage has taken place that the original dowry was not sufficient.

"They know the bride's family is vulnerable, because of subjugated role of women in our society, and what begins is a process of extortion. Demands for money turn into threats of violence, and when the family can't pay any more, the bride is killed."

Bride-burning accounts for the death of at least one woman every hour in India.

Read the entire article here.  http://www.smh.com.au/world/india-burning-brides-and-ancient-practice-is-on-the-rise-20150115-12r4j1.html

 

 

 

[joeyg]

On 12/11/2017 at 2:21 PM, MaeJoMTB said:

Sounds unlikely!

How is a passenger sitting behind going to get their foot on your back and neck?

Any photos or video evidence to support her claim? She had her phone, she must have taken photos!

 

Fidgets in the seat behind are a royal pain in the arse, but it isn't sexual assault.

How about this?! 

Nothing ta see here.  Just keep moving right along now. India burning brides and ancient practice is on the rise.

Bangalore: It was after sunset on a Sunday last November when Sushila found her daughter Laxmi lying naked on the front step of the house she shared with her husband and two children on the outskirts of Bangalore.

Laxmi had burns to more than 80 per cent of her body and in the darkness Sushila could hear more than she could see.

 

"I heard her crying, she was in agony, but I didn't know how bad it was," says Sushila. "There was no one to help her, no one wanted to come to her. I was the only person she could call for help and I live 12 kilometres away."

Laxmi was eventually taken to the Victoria Hospital in central Bangalore, which has a 50-bed burns ward, one of the most advanced in the country.

She survived three days, enough time to describe to police how she came to be doused in kerosene by her mother-in-law and set alight by her husband.

 

Bride-burning, as this type of crime is most commonly referred to, accounts for the death of at least one woman every hour in India, more than 8000 women a year.

 

"We also call it dowry death," says Donna Fernandes, the founder of Vimochana, a women's rights organisation established in Bangalore in 1975 with the aim of preventing violent against women.

"The husband's family believes they have not received enough money for their son at the time of the wedding, perhaps because they are of a higher caste or some such reason, and that's when the harassment starts."

 

Often, says Fernandes, the husband's family begin pressuring the wife's family right after the wedding.

"They start asking for cash, or gold, or consumer goods like washing machines or televisions. Whatever it is they believe is owed to them or was promised to them, luxury goods that they can get the bride's family to pay for."

In many cases the husband's family decide after the marriage has taken place that the original dowry was not sufficient.

"They know the bride's family is vulnerable, because of subjugated role of women in our society, and what begins is a process of extortion. Demands for money turn into threats of violence, and when the family can't pay any more, the bride is killed."

Bride-burning accounts for the death of at least one woman every hour in India.

Read the entire article here.  http://www.smh.com.au/world/india-burning-brides-and-ancient-practice-is-on-the-rise-20150115-12r4j1.html