KUALA LUMPUR: A student was allegedly molested at the Masjid Jamek LRT station on Thursday (Dec 14).

The incident occurred at about 7.50pm when the 20-year-old woman was at the escalator at the station.

She told police that she suddenly felt someone "touching" her private part and immediately after saw a man running away. A friend of hers managed to take a picture of the suspect.

Dang Wangi OCPD Asst Comm Shaharuddin Abdullah said police have also obtained CCTV footage of the incident and were hunting down the suspect.

The incident went viral on Twitter when a user (Dhabitah Zainal) posted that her friend was sexually assaulted when she was going to Masjid Jamek from Pasar Seni.

“A man pulled his penis out of his pants and rubbed it against her bum. She screamed for help. Bystanders laughed,” the user tweeted.

RapidKL responded in a tweet saying the suspect had been arrested and handed over to police. However, it is believed that this arrest was over a separate incident.

RapidKL later tweeted that it was conducting its own investigation into the alleged molest.