{"id":657904,"date":"2026-01-22T11:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657904"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:59:19","slug":"touched-hugged-thanked-air-india-sats-staff-member-gropes-south-korean-woman-during-frisking-at-bengaluru-airport-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/touched-hugged-thanked-air-india-sats-staff-member-gropes-south-korean-woman-during-frisking-at-bengaluru-airport-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Touched, hugged, thanked\u2019: Air India SATS staff member gropes South Korean woman during frisking at Bengaluru airport; arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 32-year-old businesswoman from South Korea accused an airline ground-handling staff member of sexual harassment at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) here Monday. In the name of &#8220;manual frisking&#8221;, the accused allegedly touched her inappropriately, hugged her and thanked her.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who arrived in India on a tourist visa in November, was returning to her home country when the incident took place in the international departure area of Terminal 2 of the airport. The accused, Mohammed Affann Ahmed, 25, from Kammanahalli, is not authorised to conduct frisking. He was arrested and sent to Central Jail in Parappana Agrahara on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 32-year-old businesswoman from South Korea accused an airline ground-handling staff member of sexual harassment at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) here Monday. In the name of &#8220;manual frisking&#8221;, the accused allegedly touched her inappropriately, hugged her and thanked her. The woman, who arrived in India on a tourist visa in November, was returning to her home country when the incident took place in the international departure area of Terminal 2 of the airport. The accused, Mohammed Affann Ahmed, 25, from Kammanahalli, is not authorised to conduct frisking. He was arrested and sent to Central Jail in Parappana Agrahara on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}