IAF Officer Arrested In Coimbatore Over Alleged Sexual Assault Complaint
NDTV
The female officer said she had been forced to go to the police because she was not satisfied with action taken by the IAF after her original complaint about two weeks ago
A 26-year-old Flight Lieutenant in the Indian Air Force has been arrested by police in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore after a 29-year-old female officer complained of sexual assault.
She said she had been forced to go to the police because she was not satisfied with action taken by the IAF after her original complaint about two weeks ago. Her sister also told NDTV that she (the woman officer) had fought 'victim-shaming' and covert 'pressure to withdraw' her complaint.
The woman, who had travelled to the Air Force College from Karnataka's Bidar for training, said the assault took place inside her room at the Air Force Administrative College in Coimbatore's Redfields.
According to her statement she injured herself while playing a sport. She then took some medication before going to sleep in her room. She woke up later that to find she had been sexually assaulted.
