Minor actress molestation case: Eyewitness claims accused was asleep with feet on handrest

The family and some eyewitnesses onboard the Vistara flight on which a young Bollywood actress alleged molestation have come out and spoken defending that the accused was sleeping at the time of the incident.

There have been two narratives of the incident. The first was when the actress alleged molestation and the other by the wife of the accused, who said it was an accidental touch as he had gone to sleep at the time of the incident.

Now, a Deccan Chronicle report says that another eyewitness has batted for the accused, identified as Vikas Sachdeva, saying that he was asleep.

“I was seated in the same… class in which the actor and the suspect (Sachdeva) flew from Delhi. The suspect did not seem to have done anything apart from his act of keeping his legs on the armrest of the seat where the actor was seated. I saw Sachdeva doze off immediately after he settled in his seat after boarding the flight at Delhi," the co-passenger narrated the incident in an official statement to the Sahar police station, reports The Times of India.

He continues, "His fault was he kept his legs on the armrest, which was wrong. I did not see him misbehaving. He also apologised when the actor shouted at him when the flight landed at Mumbai airport and the matter was settled then."

The actress had alleged that Sachdeva had continuously touched her back throughout the journey. She later flagged the incident when the flight landed in Mumbai and even shared an emotional post on social media.