Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach is expected to arrive home from India soon after having molestation allegations against him dropped.
The 27-year-old batsman, who plays in the Indian Premier league for the Royal Challengers Bangalore team, was last week granted bail by a New Delhi court following accusations he molested an American woman and beat up her fiance.
Now his father George Pomersbach, who lives in Perth, said the woman who made the allegations has decided to withdraw them.
He said Pomersbach rang him early this morning to tell him the news.
News agency the Press Trust of India is reporting an out-of-court settlement was reached.
George Pomersbach said he expected the case to be officially dropped when lawyers seek to withdraw the charges in court in India tomorrow.
He said he expected Pomersbach to return to Australia within four days to rest before resuming his cricket career.
Pomersbach's arrest was headline news in Indian newspapers on Saturday, with reports detailing the sensational allegations in the case and the chequered history of the money-spinning IPL.
Pomersbach has battled depression and drug problems and narrowly avoided a jail sentence in Australia after admitting assaulting a police officer who was trying to arrest him for drink driving.
The alleged female victim earlier told Indian media that Pomersbach had "tagged along" with her and her Mumbai-based fiance and said the cricketer grabbed her while they drank together in a hotel room in the Indian capital New Delhi.
When her fiance asked Pomersbach to leave her alone, Pomersbach "turned around and started hitting him", she alleged.
ABC/AFP
Tags: sport, cricket, india First posted May 24, 2012 09:40:18
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