Indian Engineer Sentenced for Groping Women During Flight

May 31, 2007 at 12:38 PM General Health News
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Indian Engineer Sentenced for Groping Women During Flight
Software engineers might be the brand ambassadors of India. But they could also prove a huge embarrassment for the country, as has happened in the case of Thirumurthy Nakka Boomaiah, 35 and hailing from Chennai, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

He has been sentenced to 69 days in prison in US for groping women during a flight from London to Philadelphia and assaulting flight attendants. But he has already spent the time in detention. He will be deported.

Boomaiah is married, well-traveled and had gone to US to work for a candy company near Washington D.C. He flew March 21 from London to Philadelphia aboard a British Airways flight, according to an affivadivit by FBI agent John Kitzinger. During the flight, Boomaiah allegedly rubbed the thigh of a woman sitting next to him, followed her to the bathroom and left his pants fly unzipped.

He later allegedly rubbed the thigh and buttocks of a female flight attendant. The FBI agent said that Boomaiah tried to kiss a passenger on her face and groped her between her legs. He also attacked the flight attendants who tried to restrain him. Eventually he was overpowered. For the rest of his flight he remained strapped to his seat, during which time he kept screaming obscenities.

But his misadventures did not end there. When he was first produced before a magistrate in Philadelphia, Boomaiah had to be wrestled to the courtroom floor by marshals after he leered at a female clerk during the hearing. 'I am a man!' Boomaiah shouted, according to a recording of the hearing. 'I am a man!'

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10/25/2007

You are wrong. The company fired him immediately for this kind of indecent behavior. In any case - no organization can take responsibility for sudden bout of insanity. btw - Mr. Nakka is an IIM-B MGMT grad. So is this institution also to reprimanded...cmon guys give yourself a break.



guest

07/20/2007

This guy is working with SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD in the Senior Management Position and FYI he is not fired from the company



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05/31/2007

As an Indian AND a software engineer, I expect at least some level of decency and humility from a colleague. on behalf of indian software engineers everywhere, I apologise for this lunatics misdemeanor. Unfortunately, we dont have any tough laws in India that can tach someone like him a lesson he never forgets. Luckliy, the people will make him pay(am pretty sure by now his company would've fired him).




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