A senior official of a foreign Consulate office here was allegedly molested by a man in its vicinity, police said on Saturday.
The middle-aged woman complained to the Shakespeare Sarani police station that she was molested by a man while she was walking on the street on Wednesday, Joint Commissioner (crime) Praveen Tripathi said.
Acting on the woman’s complaint, police ran a check of the CCTV footage and the man was identified as Rohit Agarwal, a third-year commerce student of a college in south Kolkata.
He was arrested on Thursday and is currently in judicial custody, Tripathi said.