MUMBAI – Bollywood actress molestation onboard commercial flight has beenreported by Indian media.
The Mumbai Sessions Court on Wednesday found a 41-year-old Mumbai manguilty of molesting a former minor actress on board a flight and slapped athree-year jail sentence on him, officials said.
The incident occurred on a Delhi-Mumbai Air Vistara flight in December2017, sparking off a national outrage, and the actress who was 17 then,later “dissociated” herself from Bollywood, IANS has reported.
Special Judge AD Deo of the Dindoshi Sessions Court pronounced the convict,Vikas Sachdev, guilty under various sections of the Indian Penal Code andProtection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).
Soon after the incident, the minor actress had posted details of her traumaon social media after which Sachdev was arrested.
“So, I was in a flight travelling from Delhi to Mumbai today and rightbehind me one middle-aged man who made my two-hour journey miserable.
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I tried to record it on phone to understand it better because the cabinlights were dimmed, I failed to get it,” she said in her social media post.
“The lights were dimmed, so it was even worse. It continued for anotherfive to ten minutes and then I was sure of it.
He kept nudging my shoulder and continued to move his foot up and down myback and neck,”, she said in a video post after the incident.
