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When she reached near the Council Hall, the suspect started following her on his motorcycle.“He suddenly blocked her way and started to pass lewd comments at her. The suspect even tried to remove her jacket,” a police officer said.The man fled from the spot after the woman raised an alarm. Pune: A motorcyclist was booked on Saturday for outraging the modesty of a 38-year-old woman near Council Hall on Saturday.The woman was walking towards her house in Camp around afternoon. “An offence under section 354-D (stalking) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered against him,” the officer added.In another incident, a man was booked for allegedly sexually harassing a nine-year-old girl on the pretext of cleaning her dress in Yerawada on Saturday evening.The girl’s clothes were soiled after she fell while was playing with a friend. “The man took the girl to a bathroom nearby and touched her inappropriately,” a police officer said adding that the girl’s mother lodged a complaint immediately after the girl informed her about the incident.An offence has been registered under sections 354-A (sexual harassment) of the IPC and the relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act..