Mumbai Court Sends 19-Year-Old To 2-Year Jail For Molesting Foreign Tourist

The Mumbai court has recently sentenced a 19-year-old man to 2 years in jail for molesting a woman tourist from Peru.

PI Mokashi (metropolitan magistrate at Mazgaon court) convicted & sentenced accused Riyaz Ahmed over 2 months after the incident.

Also, the court imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on him.

The judgment became available on Saturday, which held “no such woman like the informant with good background and reputation and being a foreigner can come to the court merely to falsely implicate the accused without any reason unless such incident shall have taken place.” During arguments on the quantum of punishment, the accused’s lawyer prayed for leniency considering his age.

Notably the lawyer said, as he was young and it was his first offense, he should be released on probation of good conduct.

But the court noted that the accused entered the woman’s room only to touch her, and now she was afraid of traveling in India.

The magistrate observed, “Thereby this act of the accused has maligned the image of our country. If the accused is given benefit under Section 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act, the wrong message will be sent throughout the world.”

The accused worked as a manager at the guest house where the 38-year-old woman from Peru, on a solo trip to Mumbai, stayed in March this year.

The women alleged that, he kept visiting her room, and insisted that she click selfies with him, and touched her inappropriately on multiple occasions.