Port Blair:
Officials said on Monday that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police arrested a UK citizen for allegedly sexually assaulting a female tourist from Bangalore.
According to a police complaint lodged by the 30 -year -old victim, the incident took place on 26 February at a scuba diving resort in Govind Nagar (Beach No. 2) in Swaraj Island (Havelok Islands).
Officials said a zeal cedar was recorded by the victim on 6 March, which was later shared to the Swaraj Island Police Station.
Speaking to PTI, South Andaman SP Manoj Kumar Meena said, “We have arrested the foreign national. He is currently in 14-day judicial custody. Investigation is on and we are waiting for medical records.” The investigation has revealed that the victim traveled to Andaman and later visited the Vamage Deep, where he met this foreign national who was learning scuba diving.
“It seems that they were socializing in the islands and on 26 February, the victim claimed that her drink was teased and later when she received consciousness in the resort, she found herself in a weak state. She went back to her hometown and informed her parents about the incident and on the basis of his parents’ advice, he filed a complaint with the US.
In the FIR, he said that trauma and forgetting disease were due to complaining after more than a week.
According to the FIR, the UK national was arrested under Section 64 of the Indian Joint Code (BNS), which relates to punishment for rape crime, Section 115 (2) of BNS (punishment for voluntarily hurt) and Section 351 (2) (crime of criminal condemnability).
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