Hyderabad: Manager booked for sexual harassment after job promise

Police said the suspect, identified as Sumanth (30), who worked briefly as an assistant general manager of a firm on Jubilee Hills Road No.36, collected the phone number of the 25-year-old victim from Himayathnagar

Hyderabad: The Jubilee Hills police booked the manager of a private firm in the city for sexually harassing a woman on the pretext of providing a job.

Police said the suspect, identified as Sumanth (30), who worked briefly as an assistant general manager of a firm on Jubilee Hills Road No.36, collected the phone number of the 25-year-old victim from Himayathnagar, when the latter recently went to attend an interview.

He started chatting with her on WhatsApp and promised to provide her a suitable job using his contacts. For the last few days, he started harassing her by sending sexually explicit content and demanding sexual favours from her in exchange for the job.

Unable to take further harassment, the woman approached the police and lodged a complaint on Tuesday, based on which a case was booked and investigation taken up.

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