A Boston doctor was arrested for exposing himself and masturbating in front of a teen girl on a 2022 flight from Honolulu to Boston.
According to a new release from the Department of Justice, 33-year-old Dr. Sudipta Mohanty was charged with one count of lewd, indecent, and obscene acts. He was arrested on Thursday and released after an initial court appearance.
Mohanty, an internal medicine and primary care doctor, was a passenger aboard a Hawaiian Airlines plane on May 27, 2022. He was seated with a female companion and a 14-year-old girl.
Halfway through the flight, the teen girl noticed Mohanty had covered himself with a blanket and observed his lake bouncing up and down. A little while later, the girl saw that the doctor was no longer covered by the blanket and that he was masturbating. The minor witnessed him ejaculate on himself.
When Mohanty got up to use the restroom, the girl moved to a seat in the row behind her since there were none by her grandmother, with whom she was traveling. When the plane landed, she told her family what had happened. The authorities were contacted.
When questioned by FBI agents at his home, Mohanty denied the allegation. “I have no recollection of that,” he said, according to the complaint.
“What Dr. Mohanty is accused of doing in front of a fourteen-year-old girl is reprehensible,” said Christopher DiMenna, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division. “Today’s arrest should make it crystal clear that the FBI takes crimes aboard aircraft seriously, everything from sexual misconduct as alleged in this case, to assault, interfering with the flight crew, and theft.”
DiMenna added, “If you’ve been the victim of a crime aboard an aircraft or have witnessed one take place, we ask you to report it to both your flight crew and the FBI.”
