According to the woman’s complaint, the incident first occurred on November 11, 2023, when she was travelling to work in South Mumbai (Representational Image) Rejecting the accused’s claim that kissing a person’s hand is a “routine practice” in the hospitality industry, a Mumbai court has sentenced a taxi driver to two years in jail for sexually harassing and stalking a five-star hotel employee in 2023. Judicial Magistrate Prashant S Ghodke of the Esplanade court rejected the defence that the woman worked in the hospitality sector, where kissing someone’s hand while greeting or thanking them was a “routine practice”. “It is pertinent to note that there is nothing on the record which shows that the manner in which a person is to be greeted or thanked includes kissing on the hand and that training in respect of it is to be imparted in the Hospitality Management course.…