Mohali, April 28 -- A local court in Kharar has summoned a contractor to face trial for allegedly molesting and threatening a woman employee at a construction site in New Sunny Enclave, observing that there was sufficient prima facie material to proceed against him.

Judicial magistrate first class Gurmehtab Singh ordered the summons under Sections 74 (assault or criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty) and 351 (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) after examining the complaint and preliminary evidence provided by the woman.

According to her counsel, advocate Tejwinder Singh, on December 3, 2023, around 11 am, when the complainant was alone in her office - a flat in Sector 123 - the ac...