MUMBAI: A 75-year-old Walkeshwar resident was arrested on Saturday for allegedly molesting a 30-year-old female employee of a bank at a coffee shop in Fort. The accused, Ashok Desai , was released on a bail of Rs 10,000 the next day, said an officer at the MRA Marg police station.

The complainant, who works as a relationship manager at a private bank, told the police that the accused, Ashok Desai, had approached her bank a few days earlier, saying he planned to invest some money. According to the police, when the woman called up Desai on June 5 to explain to him the options and the procedure involved, he asked her to meet him at the coffee shop near Horniman Circle close to Asiatic Library.

“Since it’s her job is to get more clients for investment, she agreed and went to meet Desai,” said Ashok Jagdale, senior inspector of MRA Marg police. “It was at the coffee shop that Desai allegedly touched her inappropriately. The woman took a day to think over it and then approached us to lodge a complaint.”

Summoned to the police station, Desai admitted to the crime and he was later arrested. “Even we were surprised that such an old man had committed such an act. We produced him in a court where he was granted bail,” said the police. Desai worked in a firm and his wife died a few years ago.