New Delhi: Jindal Steel & Power (JSP) Chairman Naveen Jindal has assured strictest action against a senior executive after a woman accused the latter of sexually harassing her during an Etihad Airways flight from Kolkata to Abu Dhabi.
In a post on social media platform X, the woman wrote in detail about how Dinesh Saraogi — CEO of Oman-based Vulcan Green Steel, a promoter group company of Jindal Steel – initiated a conversation with her before allegedly showing her porn clips and then groping her.
Narrating her experience which left her “shocked” and “scared”, the woman said the 65-year-old Saraogi engaged in a “normal conversation” about their backgrounds, hobbies and families. Thereafter, Saraogi took out his phone to show her some movie clips, alleged the woman.
“He whips out his phone and earphones to show me porn! He started groping me. I was frozen in shock and scared. I eventually ran off to the washroom and complained to the air staff,” said the woman, whose X profile mentions her as the co-chair of India Conference at Harvard.
Lauding the airline crew’s prompt response, the woman wrote, “They made me sit in their seating area and served me tea and fruits.” In the meantime, Saraogi kept calling crew members to ask about her whereabouts.
The airline staff informed Abu Dhabi police, who took the accused as soon as plane landed in Abu Dhabi.
“I could not proceed with a complaint because I would have missed my connecting flight to Boston,” the woman further said.
She tagged Jindal in one of her tweets to bring the incident to his notice.
“I am also afraid of how this molester must be treating his female employees from a place of power,” she wrote.
Jindal, who is also a BJP MP, responded to the woman’s post within 24 hours, saying the company had a “zero-tolerance policy” for such matters.
“Thank you for reaching out and speaking up. It takes a lot of courage to do what you did, and I want you to know that we have a zero-tolerance policy for such matters. I have asked the team to immediately investigate the matter and thereafter the strictest and necessary action will be taken,” Jindal wrote.
