Mumbai: Jobless man arrested for molesting nurse in broad daylight

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A 22-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly molesting a nurse in broad daylight.

According to reports by the Times of India, the woman was on her way to work at around 6.30am on August 17^th when the accused walked up behind her and groped her. In her complaint the woman said, "As I started to scream, he disappeared in the narrow lanes." She added that the man was wearing a T-shirt and shorts which helped the police summarise that the man must be a local of Bandra. An officer from the Bandra Police station said, "We sifted through footage from cameras set up around the spot of the crime and nabbed Raju."

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Severely traumatized by the incident the woman did not attend work for a week and it was only on 24^th August, that she filed a police complaint on the behest of her family. The accused was arrested within a couple of days of the complaint being filed.

The accused has been booked for outraging the modesty of a woman and has been granted bail as of Saturday. The police say that they are probing if the accused was involved in any other such cases.

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