A woman has accused a high ranking executive of Jindal Steel of sexually assaulting her on-board a flight from Calcutta to Abu Dhabi recently en route to Boston.

The victim shared her ordeal on the social medium X (formerly Twitter) early on Friday according to India time. She did not specify the day of the incident.

The woman, whose bio on X says she is associated with Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, tagged Naveen Jindal, chairman of Jindal Steel and Power and former MP from Kurukshetra, in her post.

"I am sharing this because I want to remind everyone that something like this can happen to anyone. I am working to get this incident out to the founder of Jindal Steel, Naveen Jindal, so that he is aware of the kind of people who are in leadership," she wrote. "I am also afraid of how this molestor must be treating his female employees from a place of power."

She added she was fine, "a little rattled and disturbed."

"I feel violated but I also want to make sure this never happens to another woman," she wrote.

The woman said the incident happened on board an Etihad flight from Calcutta to Abu Dhabi, while she was en route to Boston.

Seated next to her in a flight, she wrote, was a high-ranking executive of Jindal Steel, about 65 years old, who had introduced himself and struck up a conversation.

"He must be roughly 65 in age and told me he now lives in Oman but travels frequently. He started chatting me up - very normal conversation about our roots, family etc," she wrote.

He told the woman that he hailed from Rajasthan and had two grown children settled in the United States.

The man, she wrote, asked her if she enjoyed watching movies. When she nodded in affirmation, she wrote, "He then proceeds to tell me he has some movie clips on his phone. He whips out his phone and earphones to show me PORN!"

The ordeal, according to the woman, did not end here.

"He started groping me. I was frozen in shock and scare. I eventually ran off to the washroom and complained to the air staff," she wrote.

The airline's crew made her sit at their seating area and served her with tea and fruits, she wrote. While the staff took care of the scared woman, the man, she wrote "kept calling them to ask" where she had gone.

The airlines staff had also alerted the cops on the ground at the airport, the woman wrote, though she did not file any official complaint because she would have missed her connecting flight to Boston.

“I was escorted to the next gate to ensure he does not come near me," she wrote.

The woman claimed the man did not deny when he was questioned by the cops, though how she came to know about it was not clear.

Responding to the woman's allegations, Jindal posted on Friday morning: "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 strictest and necessary action will be taken."