A Sacramento man, Rajesh Kumar Kapoor, is staring down the possibility of a two-year prison stint and a fat $250,000 fine after allegedly getting handsy with a fellow airplane passenger, federal authorities disclosed yesterday. Kapoor, 56, was roped in by authorities following a grand jury indictment that accused him of indulging in abusive sexual contact during a Korea-to-San Francisco flight, as revealed in an announcement by U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey and FBI top dog Robert K. Tripp, the Justice Department's official website reports.

The indictment, coughed up on March 13 and pried open today, lays out that Kapoor supposedly made his illegal move on January 16, touching the victim's breasts and inner thigh without consent, while thousands of feet off the ground; he was arrested and brought before U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler for a tune-up in court and is out in the wild pending trial, details the indictment outlined on justice.gov.

Eyeing one count of abusive sexual contact, falling foul of 18 U.S.C. § 2244(b) and 49 U.S.C. § 46506(1), Kapoor's next dance with the judge comes on May 9 before Senior United States District Judge Edward M. Chen, to chat about the status of his case.

An indictment is just a smoke signal that there might be fire—it doesn't prove that Kapoor's guilty of anything. Still, if the court decides he's not innocent, the guy could face a serious timeout behind bars along with the chunky fine, not to mention some supervised release and maybe paying back his seatmate for the trouble, but whatever comes after conviction is up to the court after they've chewed over the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the beefy book of federal sentencing rules, 18 U.S.C. § 3553, so says justice.gov.

Special Assistant United States Attorney Matthew Chou is leading the charge on the Kapoor case, with team members Tina Rosenbaum and Marina Ponomarchuk, and it's all thanks to the FBI's probing work.