Aurangabad (Maharashtra): A 34-year-old officer with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai Branch was arrested Friday. The NCB officer was nabbed by the Parli Railway Police for allegedly molesting a 25-year-old woman in a train. This information was given by news agency ANI quoting Aurangabad Government Railway Police.
According to police, the accused has been identified as Dinesh Chavan, an SP rank officer in NCB.
According to the complaint, the victim and the accused were travelling to Hyderabad from Pune in the same compartment of a train. Police said that the accused NCB officer was scheduled to appear in a court in Hyderabad for a court hearing.
The complainant alleged that Chavan touched him inappropriately, removed her undergarments from her bag, sniffed and placed it on his chest, said M Patil, SP GRP Aurangabad has been quoted as saying by the news agency.
The police said that a case has been registered under Sections 354 (A) (sexual harassment) and 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).