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Foreign Consulate officer molested in Kolkata, accused identified

A senior official of a foreign Consulate office here was allegedly molested by a man in its vicinity, police said…

Foreign Consulate officer molested in Kolkata, accused identified

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A senior official of a foreign Consulate office here was allegedly molested by a man in its vicinity, police said on Saturday.

The middle-aged woman complained to the Shakespeare Sarani police station that she was molested by a man while she was walking on the street on Wednesday, Joint Commissioner (crime) Praveen Tripathi said.

Acting on the woman’s complaint, police ran a check of the CCTV footage and the man was identified as Rohit Agarwal, a third-year commerce student of a college in south Kolkata.

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He was arrested on Thursday and is currently in judicial custody, Tripathi said.

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