Noida: A 27-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly sexually harassing a woman near the Golf Course Metro station on Friday night.The accused, Naveen Kumar, a resident of Sector 37, allegedly passed lewd comments and made inappropriate gestures towards the 37-year-old woman, also a Sector 37 resident, who was returning to her house from the metro station after office.The woman alleged that, seeing her alone and taking advantage of the dark stretch and no street lights in the area, Kumar followed her and started making inappropriate comments. He indulged in obscene acts and even asked her to touch her forcefully, after which she started screaming for help.“I was traumatised and scared. I started screaming, after which some passersby came to help me. Seeing them, he ran away. A woman among them told me the man is a habitual offender and had even tried to harass her,” she said in her complaint.An FIR was registered against the accused under sections 74 (assault or criminal force), 75 (sexual harassment), and 352 (intentional insult) of the BNS at the Sector 39 police station on Saturday night, following which the accused was nabbed.
