In Maharashtra’s Mumbai, a woman was pushed out of a moving train by a man when she resisted his attempt to rob her in an outstation train at Dadar railway station, said the police.
The incident took place on Sunday night in a Bengaluru-Mumbai CSMT Udyan Express and he was then arrested by the Mumbai Police, said an official.
Briefing about the incident, he said that when the train was chugging out of Dadar, which is its second station, at approximately 8.30 pm, a man entered the unreserved ladies’ compartment which had few passengers left abroad. Then, he allegedly harassed the woman and snatched a blue bad containing case.
As she resisted his loot attempt, the accused then pushed her out of the moving train and fled, he added.
The details about the victim’s condition were not available.
Taking notes from the incident, the Government Railway Police (GRP) said the woman (victim) had approached them on Monday and filed a complaint against the accused.
Soon after the complaint was raised, police apprehended the accused before a formal FIR was filed, the official said.
Moreover, the police also examined the CCTV footage and spoke to the eyewitnesses of the incident before zeroing in on the accused, who was later charged with outraging a woman’s modesty, attempting to murder and causing hurt in a bid to commit robbery, the official added.
This is not the first time that women experienced an assault on the train in Mumbai. Reportedly, it is the third incident in recent months when a woman train passenger was assaulted. Previously, the incidents occurred on suburban trains.
