A 38-year-old Thane resident has been arrested on Sunday flashing a woman inside an ATM centre in the wee hours.

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According to a report in The Hindustan Times, the accused has been identified as Sandeep Kumbharkar and is a resident of Kopri.

Shibani, a 23-year-old woman stopped at the ATM in Mulund to withdraw money and pay her rickshaw driver but she faced some issue while traction. Kumbharkar, who was inside the kiosk at that time, offered to pay the driver on her behalf. When the complainant refused, he touched her inappropriately and flashed her. 

The woman started to film the incident on her phone and on seeing the camera the Kumbharkar fled the spot. Shibani found a police van on patrol duty and showed the video. The police then chased the accused for about a kilometre before nabbing him, the deputy commissioner of police was quoted as saying by HT. 

The accused was charged under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) 354 (A) (making sexually coloured remarks, shall be guilty of the offence of sexual harassment) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Later, woman took to social media and thanked Mumbai Police to for helping her. "What he did, was scary and terrifying. This was a locality wherein I felt safe. But he has ruined it for me. I can't walk the streets feeling the same sense of safety," she wrote.