The incident was reported yesterday by a 25-year-old woman to the Yamuna Bank Depot Metro police station.
In her complaint, the woman, who works in an MNC in Noida, alleged that the accused was trying to make a video of her on his mobile phone while she was travelling from Noida Sector-16 to Akshardham, the police said.
The woman alleged that when she noticed him in the act and took away his mobile phone, the accused snatched it back and tried to manhandle her but other passengers came to her help, they said.
During interrogation, it was revealed that the accused was in an inebriated state at the time of the incident. He sells tobacco products for a living in his hometown and was here to meet his relatives, the police officers said.