Flyer molests air hostess on int'l flight to B'luru, held

A Maldivian national molested a female flight attendant when she came to serve him and behaved obscenely with two other female cabin crew members on board an Indigo Airlines flight from Male to Bengaluru on Friday evening (August 18).

- S. LALITHA

After landing at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), he was apprehended by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and later turned to the local police authorities who took him into custody, the police confirmed.

Akram Ahmed, who is from Male in Maldives, has been booked under Sections 354 (assault or use of criminal force on any woman intending to outrage her modesty) and 409 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of IPC.

The incident occurred on board flight No. 6E 1128 after the flight departed at 3.48 pm from the Velana International Airport in Male. Ahmed, seated in 38D, asked for a glass of beer and cashew nuts, states the FIR copy. Flight attendant Tia brought them over to him.