At a time when the conscience-keepers among us are ruing people’s reluctance to lend a helping hand to accident or sexual harassment victims, this auto driver bucks the trend. He refused to let a molester of a Ukrainian national, whom he was ferrying in his auto, get away with the offence.

Around 9pm on Tuesday, a 35-year-old Ukrainian, flag­ged down an auto at Bandra. When the vehicle stopped at the Paanch Bawdi junction signal in Meghwadi, a biker, Imran Ikramuddin Khan, 32, reached in and started groping her. “He even tried to snatch her bag, after which she asked the auto driver to help her,” said an officer from the Meghwadi police station.

The driver rose to the occasion. He caught the attention of a traffic policeman. After the cop was brought up to speed, he jumped into the auto and directed the driver to give Khan a chase. A woman standing nearby also joined them. The group caught up with the molester at a traffic signal ahead. But the cop was allegedly manhandled by Khan, who was placed in police custody till Saturday.