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Gymnast, coach booked for sexual harassment in Asian Games training camp
A gymnast and his coach who are attending a national camp for the upcoming Asian Games, have been booked for allegedly sexually harassing a woman gymnast at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Delhi, police said on Tuesday.
A gymnast and his coach who are attending a national camp for the upcoming Asian Games, have been booked for allegedly sexually harassing a woman gymnast at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Delhi, police said on Tuesday.
A case on charges of gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman and for criminal intimidation under various sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the IP Estate police station after the 29-year-old woman gymnast approached police on Monday.
She told police in her complaint that she was harassed by the coach and the gymnast during the evening gymnastics session at the stadium on September 2.
She said the two passed some vulgar remarks about her clothes and also made some indecent comments on her.
Police said the woman has informed her coaches about the incident.
