Police commissioner Anuj Sharma on Thursday met the couple who had helped a molest victim on the EM Bypass in September.

Nilanjana Chatterjee and her husband Deep Satpati were assured of all cooperation from the police.

Sharma met the couple at the headquarters of the Calcutta police in Lalbazar and praised Chatterjee’s bravery.

Close to midnight on September 5, a 31-year-old woman was allegedly molested by an acquaintance inside his car on EM Bypass and then thrown out.

Nilanjana, who was travelling in another car with her husband and their daughter, had responded to the cry for help from inside the car and got off to help the victim, a bank employee.

She was left with a fractured leg and gash in the head when the alleged assailant’s Honda City hit her during his hasty bid to flee.

Police submitted a chargesheet against Abhishek Pandey, the accused, in October. He has been charged with attempt to murder, outrage of modesty of a woman, voluntarily causing hurt, rash and negligent driving, causing grievous hurt by doing a rash and negligent act so as to endanger human life or personal safety of others as the charges.

If convicted, Pandey can be sent to jail for up to 10 years.

“The police commissioner met us and assured us of all help. He even called the joint police commissioner (crime) and instructed him to find out the status of the case,” Satpati said.

Senior officers in Calcutta police said Sharma was down with Covid when the incident happened and couldn’t meet Chatterjee and her family. Sharma, though, had called her up and congratulated her for her act of bravery.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had saluted Nilanjana’s bravery. The state government had paid all her medical expenses.