Mumbai share broker, trader arrested for sexual assault on struggling model
India Today
A share broker and trader has been arrested from a hotel in west Mumbai on charges of sexually assaulting a struggling actress in Mumbai.
A share broker and trader has been arrested from a hotel in west Mumbai on charges of sexually assaulting a struggling actress in Mumbai.
A case has been registered against share broker and trader Jignesh Mehta at the Andheri MIDC police station for attempted sexual assault on a struggling actor and model at a hotel in the western suburbs of Mumbai.
Mehta had asked the victim to come and meet him in Mumbai at a hotel room in Andheri MIDC. Mehta had told the victim that he knew many bollywood producers and would get her work and asked her to join him for dinner in the hotel room on August 5 evening.
According to police officials from MIDC police station, Mehta then tried to sexually assault the victim and started trying to pull her clothes off while his friend was also present. The victim resisted and started screaming for help. Hearing her screams, the hotel staff ran to her rescue and saved her.
Hotel staffers then caught Mehta who was taken and handed over to MiDC police station in Andheri. He will be produced in court today, August 6.
Mehta has been booked under sections 354 (criminal force to outrage modesty of a woman), 354 B (criminal force with the intention of disrobing or compelling her to be naked) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC.
