2 Puducherry students held for molesting tourist

  • | Monday | 10th September, 2018

Both hail from Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu.Police said a woman tourist from Pune in Maharashtra reached Puducherry on Saturday with her friends. The students allegedly molested the woman while dancing and the woman raised alarm. Ramkumar and Ezhilarasan, who consumed liquor at the bar, soon started dancing on the floor.Police said the woman tourist visited the bar with her friends. PUDUCHERRY: Police on Monday arrested a postgraduate medical student and an undergraduate medical student in a private college on charges of misbehaving with a woman tourist at a bar and restaurant in the Union territory of Puducherry The arrested were identified as R Ramkumar, 28, pursuing MD in a private medical college and hospital, and his friend R Ezhilarasan, 25, pursuing MBBS in the same college. She visited a bar and restaurant near the beach road on Sunday night.

PUDUCHERRY: Police on Monday arrested a postgraduate medical student and an undergraduate medical student in a private college on charges of misbehaving with a woman tourist at a bar and restaurant in the Union territory of Puducherry The arrested were identified as R Ramkumar, 28, pursuing MD in a private medical college and hospital, and his friend R Ezhilarasan, 25, pursuing MBBS in the same college. Both hail from Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu.Police said a woman tourist from Pune in Maharashtra reached Puducherry on Saturday with her friends. She visited a bar and restaurant near the beach road on Sunday night. The bar has a dance floor. Ramkumar and Ezhilarasan, who consumed liquor at the bar, soon started dancing on the floor.Police said the woman tourist visited the bar with her friends. She later joined the dancing people. The students allegedly molested the woman while dancing and the woman raised alarm. The security personnel came to her rescue.The woman preferred to lodge a complaint against the molesters with the Odiansalai police.The police booked Ramkumar and Ezhilarasan under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 506 (1) (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and arrested them.

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