BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Monday refused to quash the criminal case registered by a Korean national against an airport staffer for allegedly sexually harassing her by taking her into a male washroom on the pretext of frisking.
Justice M Nagaprasanna on Monday rejected the petition filed by the accused Mohammad Affaan Ahmed (25), who was working at the Kempegowda International Airport, questioning the legality of the crime registered against him by the 32-year-old Korean national with the airport police on January 19. The accused was hired on a contractual basis by the airport.
When the matter was taken up for hearing, the court asked the counsel for the accused, orally, that she is a woman of another nation and she has narrated what all you did. Why did you take her to a gent’s toilet?
The court also pointed out that the complaint shows that the accused, who is an airport staff of a private firm took the Korean woman to the washroom, made her stand in ‘T’ position there and touched her inappropriately without her consent. What kind of officer are you? And the justification is that there was someone else in the ladies’ washroom. Should you be spared?, the court orally observed before dismissing the petition.