Dinesh Kumar Saraogi, the CEO of an Oman-based company, has been charged under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after a woman accused him of sexual harassment onboard a flight.
Saraogi is the CEO of Oman’s Vulcan Green Steel. A woman accused the 65-year-old of sexual harassment, claiming he showed her pornographic movie clips on his phone.
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The incident occurred on a Kolkata to Abu Dhabi flight
In a post on X, the woman described how Saraogi started a conversation with her on a flight from Kolkata to Abu Dhabi. She claimed they had a “normal conversation” about their histories, hobbies, and families before Saraogi pulled out his phone and showed her “some movie clips”.
“He pulls out his phone and earphones and shows me porn! He began touching me. I was frozen with shock and fear. I eventually hurried to the restroom and protested to the flight attendants,” said the woman, whose X profile lists her as the co-chair of the India Conference at Harvard.
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Woman praises instant action taken by Airlines’ crew
The woman praised the Etihad Airways crew’s immediate action against the suspects. “They made me sit in their seating area and served me tea and fruits,” she told.
But the woman said Saraogi kept calling the airline personnel to find out where she was.
Based on a complaint from the woman’s parents, the Bidhannagar City Police in Kolkata filed a case against Saraogi on Sunday under Sections 74 (assault or use of criminal force with intent to outrage modesty), 75 (sexual harassment), and 79 (uttering words, making sounds, gestures, or displaying any object that insults a woman’s modesty and intrudes upon her privacy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
In her post, the woman had also tagged BJP MP Naveen Jindal, Chairman of Jindal Steel and Power, asking him to take action against Saraogi , who she claimed was a top executive of his company.
“Thank you for reaching out and speaking up! It takes a lot of courage to do what you did and I want you to know that we have a zero tolerance policy for such matters,” Jindal said in reply to the woman’s post.
