Dubai: Police have charged a Bahraini diplomat in Mumbai with allegedly abusing a woman manager of his housing society in the posh Malabar Hill neighbourhood, an officer said Wednesday.
The Malabar Hill police have charged Consul General Mohammad Abdul Aziz Al Khaja but have not arrested him in view of his diplomatic immunity.
The complainant, a 49-year-old woman, contended that the diplomat became angry when one of the building’s lifts was not working December 9. Finding the lift shut for maintenance work, the diplomat banged on the lift doors.
The woman said when she attempted to restrain him, he ransacked her office in the building, used abusive language and even touched her, police said.
The diplomat again kicked up a ruckus December 20, after which the woman lodged a complaint at Malabar police station.
Booked
The woman has been working in the society for about a decade. The diplomat has been living there for nearly five years.
Al Khaja has been booked under sections 354 (molestation), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the Indian Penal Code, according to PTI, Malabar Hill police station senior inspector Vinay Bagade said, declining to divulge further details.
Official sources in New Delhi said a report of concerned officials of Maharashtra has reached the Ministry of External Affairs which is examining it in the light of the rights and obligations of consular officials under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, reported PTI,
With inputs from IANS
