Food delivery man held for molesting woman in Pune
Pune (PTI): Police have arrested a 40-year-old food delivery man for allegedly molesting a 19-year-old woman student in Maharashtra's Pune city, an official said on Tuesday.
The incident took place on September 17 in Kondhwa area after the engineering student ordered food from a restaurant through an online food aggregator app.
"After delivering the parcel to the woman at around 9 pm on Saturday, the accused- Raees Shaikh - asked for water to drink. While drinking water, he struck up a conversation with the woman and asked details about her native place and college," an official from Kondhwa police station said.
The accused told the woman he was like her uncle and asked her to tell him if she wanted anything. He also messaged her on phone, but deleted it immediately, the official said.
"The man then asked for another glass of water and when the woman gave it to him, he allegedly held her hand and molested her," the official said.
"When the woman raised an alarm, the accused tried to run away but some people from the housing society caught him and handed him over to police," he said.
The woman subsequently approached police and lodged a complaint.
The accused was arrested and booked under Indian Penal Code Sections 354 (outraging modesty of a woman) and 354-A (sexual harassment), the official said.
He was later released on bail, the police added.
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We received request; will decide soon whether to support TVK: Thirumavalavan
Chennai (PTI): VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan on Thursday said that his party received a request from TVK for support and the high-level committee of his party will decide whether to support the Vijay-led party to form the government.
The TVK won 108 seats in the 234-member Assembly and emerged as the single largest party. Vijay will have to resign from one of the two constituencies he has won.
Though the Congress party, which has five MLAs, has extended support to TVK, the actor-politician-led party was still short of as many seats to touch the magic number of 118, the majority mark in the 234-member House.
"We received the request letter from TVK. We are thankful for that. We have not ignored his (Vijay's) request. We have a procedure. Therefore, our party's high-level committee will decide soon. We are going to discuss the merits and demerits of our position," the VCK leader told reporters here.
With regard to the delay in the governor's call to the TVK, which is the single largest party, to form the government, Thirumavalavan requested the governor to invite Vijay to form the government. "It is a constitutional right and people's verdict," he added.
Asserting that the governor cannot say that Vijay should hold 118 MLAs' support now itself to form the government, he said that after taking over power, Vijay has to prove an absolute majority only on the floor of the Assembly.
