A woman who was walking home from her workplace in Sector V with a colleague was allegedly moles-ted by a man in front of the Aegis building in Sector V’s EP Block on Tuesday night.

The woman mentioned in her complaint lodged with police that the man, later identified as Babu Halder, 22, had allegedly grabbed her hand from behind before groping her. He tried to run away but the woman gave him a chase.

Seeing her run after the man, shopkeepers and passersby came to her aid and caught the man, an officer of the Electronics Complex police station said.

An officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate said a police team, alerted by the woman’s cries, rushed to the site and detained the man.

The woman then went to the police station and filed the complaint. Halder was arrested based on the complaint.

The woman, who works in an BPO, alleged that the cops asked her a lot of “intriguing questions” and asked her to narrate the incident several times and also to rewrite her complaint repeatedly.

“It was quite humiliating and I felt extremely bad as the personnel at the police station seemed reluctant to lodge the complaint,” the woman said.

An officer of the commissionerate, however, said she had been asked to rewrite her complaint as the incident was not clear. “We tried to help her in every possible way. A lady officer attended to her all through,” said the officer.

Halder has been charged under various sections of the IPC, including 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman). If convicted, Halder can be sent to jail for five years.