New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- A woman alleged that she was harassed by a 46-year-old man inside the Bengaluru metro. She said the man usually sat close to her and touched her inappropriately, claiming that she realised after a while that what he was doing was not a mistake but "intentional."

"I froze...I got up and I slapped him...he was getting down at the same metro station, so I slapped him again there. I slapped him so bad that she was crying and begging. and on top of that, he was smiling also," she said in a video statement that has now gone viral.

The incident happened on a Namma Metro train in central Bengaluru on Tuesday, near the busy Majestic interchange, one of the city's busiest transit hubs, NDTV reported.

Police identified the a...