India, Oct. 30 -- The Ghaziabad police on Wednesday arrested a 24-year-old man for allegedly molesting a 22-year-old shooting athlete in Modinagar on Tuesday morning, officials said on Wednesday, adding that an FIR has been registered in the case.

Police identified the suspect as Ankur Kumar, originally from Shamli, and residing in Modinagar, where he works as a lab technician.

Based on motorcycle's registration number of Kumar, the athlete's father filed a police complaint at Modinagar police station and an FIR was registered in the evening under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 74 (assault or the use of criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty), and 351(2) (criminal intimidati...