Youth sneaks into girl’s bathroom, booked under Nirbhaya Act

Hyderabad: A 22-year-old youth has been booked under Nirbhaya Act after he sneaked into a girl’s bathroom and tried to force himself on her in Banjara Hills area on Wednesday.

According to police, Shravan secretly entered and hid himself in a water barrel in the bathroom in a house before the 20 year-old girl, a resident of Gautam Nagar in Film Nagar area entered the bathroom to take a shower. While the girl was getting ready to take a bath, the guy sprang out of the barrel and tried to seize her making sexual advances. The girl was frightened as he forced himself on her and somehow got rid of him and ran out of bathroom. The miscreant fled away before the girl told her parents about it.

Police registered a case against Shravan under Nirbhaya Act after the victim had lodged a complaint with Banjara Hills Police. Police said the youth runs a general store in the same colony.