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Man convicted for 'feeling up' actor says he was 'sleeping'
Updated On: 16 January, 2020 07:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma, Vishal Singh
In 2017 case of molestation of then 17-year-old actor on flight, special POCSO court sentences flier to three years, says every traveller on public transport should be conscious enough to not cause any inconvenience to fellow passengers

Vikas Sachdeva
Two years after 45-year-old Vikas Sachdeva was accused of molesting an actress who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, the Dindoshi Sessions Court has convicted him. Judge Abhishri Dnyaneshwar Deo, at the special POCSO court, Dindoshi Sessions court, was scathing in her verdict, saying most women go through this kind of sexual assault but never report it. And, this case proved that even women in the most expensive mode of transport were not immune to such assaults. However, the court has granted Sachdeva bail against R25,000 and the sentence is to be suspended until further orders.
Judge Deo said, "The present case is the most common experience of sexual assault on every woman travelling by public transport, but ignored by each one of them thinking that there is no likelihood of coming across the assailant after the journey. Hence, almost all such assaults go unreported. The present case will demonstrate that the most elite mode of transport is not an exception to such a common experience, that too, in business class."
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