Indian man jailed in Singapore for molesting air hostess on flight in 2017: report

An Indian national here was sentenced to four months of jail on Friday for molesting an air hostess on a flight from Kochi to Singapore in 2017, according to a media report.

Vijayan Mathan Gopal, a quality assurance engineer, was found guilty after a trial in which he was charged with three counts of outraging the modesty of the 22-year-old victim while on a Scoot flight on November 2, 2017, Channel News Asia reported.

The victim had testified during the trial that she had gone to Gopal to tell him firmly not to press the call light button for assistance again, after he did so repeatedly.

He stroked her face and said "you are so beautiful", before cupping her face with his hands, the report said.

This made her feel "angry, uncomfortable and very disgusted", but she could not push him away as he was a passenger, and instead leaned back and raised her voice, saying: "Sir, sir, sir."