<p>Police are hunting for a 32-year-old man who purportedly molested a woman in a drunken stupor in central Bengaluru's MG Road on Monday evening. The cops had let him off as the woman refused to file a complaint. </p>.<p class="bodytext">However, when the matter was brought to the notice of senior police officers, they directed the station house officer of the Cubbon Park police station to open a suo motu case of molestation and arrest the suspect, Thimmegowda, of Veerabhadra Nagar, Banashankari 1st Stage. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Police appear to have botched up the case. Though they slapped a notice of eve-teasing and public nuisance on the suspect under section 92Q of the Karnataka Police Act, they didn't get him medically examined, in spite of eyewitness accounts that he appeared drunk. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident occurred around 7.30 pm when the woman, along with a female friend and two children, was near the MG Road metro station. She let out a scream that Thimmegowda had touched her inappropriately. A crowd gathered soon after and confronted Thimmegowda and his friend, Raju. The children accompanying the women were petrified by the commotion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thimmegowda pleaded with the crowd: "I committed a mistake. Slap me for that, but why call the police?" His friend suggested that the woman was about to fall and that Thimmegowda had only saved her. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The women then called up members of their family who too were on MG Road. Two male relatives rushed to the spot and called the Namma 100 police helpline.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A police patrol car (Hoysala vehicle number 13) arrived at the spot along with an assistant sub-inspector Lakshman, from the Cubbon Park police station. The policeman asked the woman and her family to file a complaint but they refused to do so. At the same time, however, they wanted action against the suspect. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Police bundled the suspect into the patrol car and took him to the police station. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Since no formal complaint was made, police let the suspect off after slapping a notice of eve-teasing and public nuisance on him. They didn't take him to a hospital for a medical examination either to determine whether he was drunk. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Chandragupta, deputy commissioner of police (central), later ordered the local police to file a case on their own and hunt down the suspect.</p>
<p>Police are hunting for a 32-year-old man who purportedly molested a woman in a drunken stupor in central Bengaluru's MG Road on Monday evening. The cops had let him off as the woman refused to file a complaint. </p>.<p class="bodytext">However, when the matter was brought to the notice of senior police officers, they directed the station house officer of the Cubbon Park police station to open a suo motu case of molestation and arrest the suspect, Thimmegowda, of Veerabhadra Nagar, Banashankari 1st Stage. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Police appear to have botched up the case. Though they slapped a notice of eve-teasing and public nuisance on the suspect under section 92Q of the Karnataka Police Act, they didn't get him medically examined, in spite of eyewitness accounts that he appeared drunk. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident occurred around 7.30 pm when the woman, along with a female friend and two children, was near the MG Road metro station. She let out a scream that Thimmegowda had touched her inappropriately. A crowd gathered soon after and confronted Thimmegowda and his friend, Raju. The children accompanying the women were petrified by the commotion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thimmegowda pleaded with the crowd: "I committed a mistake. Slap me for that, but why call the police?" His friend suggested that the woman was about to fall and that Thimmegowda had only saved her. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The women then called up members of their family who too were on MG Road. Two male relatives rushed to the spot and called the Namma 100 police helpline.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A police patrol car (Hoysala vehicle number 13) arrived at the spot along with an assistant sub-inspector Lakshman, from the Cubbon Park police station. The policeman asked the woman and her family to file a complaint but they refused to do so. At the same time, however, they wanted action against the suspect. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Police bundled the suspect into the patrol car and took him to the police station. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Since no formal complaint was made, police let the suspect off after slapping a notice of eve-teasing and public nuisance on him. They didn't take him to a hospital for a medical examination either to determine whether he was drunk. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Chandragupta, deputy commissioner of police (central), later ordered the local police to file a case on their own and hunt down the suspect.</p>