GUWAHATI: A widow in Assam was seriously injured after she had jumped off a speeding vehicle to escape an alleged rape attempt.
The police said the woman, who is in her mid-forties, was undergoing treatment at a government-run hospital in eastern Assam’s Golaghat town. She sustained injuries on her head and one eye, a doctor at
the hospital said.
The incident occurred at around 8 pm on Monday when the woman was travelling from her birthplace Titabor in Jorhat district to Silanijan, about 60 km away, in Karbi Anglong district where she has been living ever since her marriage.
“I had dropped her at the bus stop at Titabor where she boarded a Golaghat-bound bus. In Golaghat, she probably didn’t get a bus to go further to Silanijan and boarded a goods-laden vehicle,” a relative told
the media on Tuesday.
The police said the woman had asked the driver to drop her at Silanijan but when the vehicle, which was travelling at a very high speed, did not stop there saying they had not reached the place, she panicked and jumped off at a bridge near the Nambar Reserve Forest.
The locals found her with severe injuries lying unconscious by the roadside. Later, the police rushed her to the hospital.
Karbi Anglong Superintendent of Police, Debojit Deuri, told Express that it was a goods-laden DI truck. While three persons, including the driver, were on the front seat, the woman was seated on the back seat.
“She hasn’t told us anything about rape or molestation attempt on her. Perhaps, the trio had such an intention but nothing happened till the time she had jumped off the vehicle,” Deuri said.
Asked if the police could identify the vehicle or the trio, he said, “She hasn’t been able to give us details of the vehicle except that it was white DI. We’re investigating,” he said.
The woman had gone to her parental home in Titabor on January 15 and was returning on Monday.