Denying the charge that he misbehaved with a woman passenger in a flight, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation Corporator U. Venkateshwara Rao told Cyberabad police here that he was not at fault. He appeared before the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) police on Thursday following a notice served by them under section 41 of Criminal Procedure Code in a case of misbehaviour registered against him. The complainant, professor of a renowned college in Delhi, lodged a complaint with the RGIA police stating that Mr. Rao touched her feet and made sexual advances.
The Corporator was seated next to her in a Vijayawada-bound flight that took off from Delhi. When he made ‘sexual advances’, the professor, who was heading to Hyderabad to participate in a seminar, raised an alarm and called in the crew members. She later complained to the RGIA police against him. The Corporator, who landed at Gannavaram airport near Vijayawada by the time the police registered a case, was served a summon seeking his version. “In his statement recorded on Thursday, he claimed that he was asleep when his feet accidentally touched hers,” RGIA Inspector T. Sudhakar said.
Mr. Rao also maintained that even the woman passenger was asleep when the incident occurred. “Both the airhostess and the woman spoke in English which I didn’t understand. I didn’t even speak to the woman passenger about the issue,” the police quoted him as saying.
