Mumbai, Apr 24 (PTI) A 24-year-old employee of a private firm in south Mumbai has been arrested for allegedly stalking and sexually harassing a woman colleague, police said on Friday.
Based on a complaint lodged at the Agripada police station, the accused, a resident of Sewri Cross Road, was apprehended late on Thursday night, an official said.
The 19-year-old complainant has alleged that the accused sent her obscene videos and sought sexual relations, he said.
The official said that the accused allegedly targeted women of a particular community, sending them objectionable messages and obscene videos and making vulgar comments while chatting with them.
The accused also stalked the complainant on several occasions, he said.
According to the complainant’s father, the accused got her mobile phone number from the company’s WhatsApp group and had targeted at least three women of a particular community.
The official said that the accused has been arrested under sections 77 (voyeurism), 78 (stalking), 79 (words, gestures, sounds, or acts intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and relevant provisions of the IT Act.
The accused was produced in a court, which sent him to police custody till April 28, he added. PTI DC ARU
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