OUR CORRESPONDENT, New Delhi

A Bangladeshi national has been arrested in Mumbai allegedly for sexually harassing a female flight attendant on board a Muscat-Dhaka flight travelling via Mumbai.

The incident took place in the early hours of Thursday before the Vistara flight was scheduled to land at the Mumbai International Airport, said Dikshit Gedam, deputy commissioner of Mumbai police yesterday.

“The accused, identified as Md Dulal, 30, who is a Bangladeshi national, was going to Dhaka from Muscat via Mumbai on a Vistara flight. Half an hour before the plane was to land in Mumbai, Dulal got up from his seat, hugged a female flight attendant and tried to kiss her,” the official said.

The accused flyer also did not pay heed to the flight captain’s warning when the latter read out a red warning card declaring him an unruly passenger, he said.

On landing at Mumbai airport, the Bangladeshi national was handed over to security officers who took him to the Sahar Police Station, the official added.

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