Police patrolling the roads of T Nagar in the wee hours of Friday found a 20-year-old woman lying unconscious, under the influence of alcohol, on the steps of a leading textile showroom near Panagal Park. She was sent home in the morning after her mother was called to the Pondy Bazaar Police station.

All she remembered was that she dancing in the pub with a few men she had got introduced to that evening. After that she blacked out said police sources. The girl who lives in KK Nagar had gone to the pub of a star hotel on GN Chetty Road on Thursday evening.

Police said that girl had gone alone. She had a few drinks and danced till around 2.30am. "We noticed three young men gathered around someone lying in front of the textile shop. When they saw the police vehicle, two of them fled the scene. We found her lying unconscious police said.

The young man who was questioned by the police said he had seen the woman drinking and dancing at the pub. The girl left the pub at 2.30am; she left the dance floor along with another man. He took her in his car even though she was in a totally inebriated condition and was not aware where she was going, he said.

The policemen then took the girl to the Pondy Bazaar police station where she was detained till she regained consciousness. Early on Friday morning, she asked the policemen to call her mother. The 50-year-old woman came to the police station and took her daughter, who had still not entirely recovered from the influence of alcohol. "The mother told us she was aware that her daughter had gone to the pub. She did not want to pursue a case. The girl was let off after a warning," the officer said.

The young woman told the police she was not aware know what happened to her at the pub when the police questioned her. She also failed to recollect the identity of the person whom accompanied her out of the pub. "As both mother and daughter refused to cooperate during the interrogation, we cannot be sure if she was sexually harassed after she blacked out," he said.