Minor actor molestation case: Accused Vikas Sachdev sent to judicial custody till December 22

A sessions court here today remanded the 39-year-old man, arrested for allegedly molesting a minor Bollywood actress on-board a Delhi-Mumbai flight, in  judicial custody till December 22. 

Vikas Sachdev was arrested on December 10 and was presented before the court next day which sent him to police custody. 

Sachdev also filed a bail application before the Dindoshi sessions court which will hear the plea on December 15. 

Sachdev has been booked under section 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and relevant sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) since the actor is a minor.

The actor had alleged she was on a Vistara flight from Delhi to Mumbai on Saturday night when a co-passenger sitting behind her put his feet on her armrest.

"He kept nudging my shoulder and continued to move his foot up and down my back and neck," the actor said in an Instagram post soon after she got off the plane at the Mumbai airport.

(With agency inputs)