KOLKATA: In an incident that has put a big question mark on the safety of women in local trains of West Bengal, a 32-year-old housemaid was thrown out of the ladies compartment of a moving local train by two
men when she resisted their attempts to allegedly gangrape her.
According to sources, the married housemaid, a resident of Mathurapur in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal was returning home after meeting a friend in Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district in a Hasnabad-Sealdah local train on Monday evening when two drunk men boarded the very thinly populated women's coach and started harassing the victim with lewd gestures.
Sources added that the two men tried to force themselves on the lone woman after the remaining passengers in the women's coach got down at Haroa station.
"However, when she resisted the attempts of gangrape, she was picked up in the arms by the perpetrators and thrown out of the speeding train. She fell in between the two tracks from where she crawled to the banana grove nearby and remained unconscious the entire night. She was found groaning in pain on Tuesday morning by Habib Sardar and Abdul Rahim Mondal, residents of Kumruli village in Deganga area, and was admitted to Barasat hospital by the duo," a source said.
"The victim has suffered deep injuries in her head and both her legs are fractured. She has also undergone
Computerised Tomography (CT) scan to assess injuries to her brain. Her condition is still critical," a doctor in Barasat hospital told Express. Husband of the victim works in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
Sources revealed that railway police personnel were not present in the local train when the incident took place. It has been over 24 hours since the crime took place and the culprits are still at large. Police has initiated a suo moto case into the incident.
Meanwhile, state women's commission has on Wednesday demanded that an FIR be lodged in the case.