actress Chinmayee

Sumeet Raghavan

CCTV footage

shameful act

Crime Branch Unit VIII

ByIncident occurred close to Vile Parle school; concerned for students,and her actor husbandcomplain to police; cops identify the accused fromA chauffeur has been arrested for his alleged indecent behaviour towards actress Chinmayee, the wife of actor Sumeet Raghavan, from a car on Monday. Chinmayee was walking back to her residence in Vile Parle from a doctor’s clinic when she noticed the accused, who was seated in a parked white car, touching himself.The incident occurred close to a school, after which the actor couple raised concerns about the security of the girls studying in the school.The Vile Parle police arrested the accused, chauffeur Jeevan Chowdhary, 42, on Monday evening, just a few hours after the case was registered against him. Chowdhary works for a businessman, a police official said.“I was walking towards my house; I had stopped to drink water, when I noticed a man sitting in acar who was looking at me, and indulging in an obscene act. He was wearing a grey safari suit. When I tried to confront him, he sped away in the car. I am a 47-year-old lady, and a school is just a stone’s throw away from where the incident took place. I reported the matter to the police because such incidents must not be ignored, and such people must not be spared. The police have been really helpful in the matter,” Chinmayee said.Her husband, Sumeet, told Mirror: “My wife was walking back home and talking over the phone, when she noticed a man in white car with his window half down. He was doing a very. My wife attempted to slap him at the spot, but he fled with the car. She also tried to note down the number of the car, but could only get the last four digits. We then decided to bring the matter to the police, and the police acknowledged our concern by registering an FIR and launching a probe into the incident.”Following their complaint, the Vile Parle police registered an FIR under Section 509 of the IPC against an unknown person. The police then scanned CCTV footage of the entire vicinity to get details of the car’s registration. Meanwhile, the, too, launched a parallel investigation into the matter. After the cops managed to identify the number of the car, the cops traced the alleged culprit to a Vile Parle building and nabbed him.“The accused was initially detained from a building in Vile Parle and was brought to the police station. He was arrested on Monday night,” a police official told Mirror.