Flight attendant molested by room-mate’s friend in Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: A 25-year-old woman from Punjab who works with a private airline as an flight attendant filed a complaint on Saturday with Chandkheda police alleging that she had been molested by her room-mate’s drunk friend after the man and her friend and others had a booze party at her PG home in Jagatpur on June 9.
The complainant stated in her FIR that she has been living with three other women including the accused named Priyanka Goyal in a PG for six months.
In February, Goyal called three of her male friends Shubham Sherawat, Mayank Sherawat and Nitish Sherawat at their PG home and they had a booze party.
She objected to it, but Goyal told her that her friends would soon be leaving after the party, so she should bear with it.
But later on, Goyal and her friends began holding frequent booze parties at the PG and also played loud music and disturbed others by making noise and uttering verbal abuses.
“Goyal called the three men to the PG and they began staying there since June 4. When I objected to their stay, Goyal said that they would return to their home in some days and told me to adjust,” said the complainant.
She said in the FIR that she went to her work on June 5 where her duty was scheduled in a Jaipur-bound flight and returned home on June 8.
“When I returned home, I found Goyal and the others having liquor and playing loud music. I again told them not to drink and stop playing loud music. This time, my room-mate fought with me and threatened that she would throw my baggage and other articles outside,” she alleged in the FIR.
At that time, other room-mates intervened and sorted out the dispute.
But on the next day, Goyal and the three men again began drinking since morning and picked a fight with complainant. “On June 9 afternoon, when I was sleeping in my house, Goyal’s friend Mayank Sherawat slipped onto the bed besides me and began molesting me. When I resisted, he forced himself upon me and demanded sexual favours,” she said.
The complainant pushed him aside, ran out of the room and told Goyal about this. But Goyal took the side of the accused and she along with the other men began threatening her.
Then the complainant called up police control room, but before the cops could arrive, the accused fled from there.
The complainant talked about this to her parents, who told her to file a police complaint. She finally approached Chandkheda police and filed a complaint of molestation, uttering of abusive words, criminal intimidation and abetment against the Sherawats and Goyal.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)