Woman jumps from speeding train to escape molesters
Published: 03rd January 2013 09:36 PM | Last Updated: 04th February 2013 02:10 PM | A+A A-
A woman jumped from a
speeding express train suffering injuries on her head and legs
to escape from molesters who were identified as army jawans
near Ara junction in Bihar's Bhojpur district today, officials
said.
Bhojpur District Magistrate Pratima S Verma told PTI that
the woman from Darjeeling in West Bengal jumped out of the
14055 UP Dibrugarh-Delhi Brahmaputra Express at Jagjivan Halt
to escape from the clutches of the molesters.
The woman in her thirties suffered injuries on the head
and legs and was admitted to the Sadar Hospital at Ara, the
district headquarters of Bhojpur, around 50 km from Patna.
One of the molesters, identified as army jawan Ramesh
Kumar hailing from Himachal Pradesh, was caught by an Assam
Rifles man A D Upadhyay from the toilet where he was hiding,
police sources said.
He was handed over to the Railway Protection Force at
Buxar, the sources said.
Inspector General of Police, Rail, Vinay Kumar said in
Patna that another army jawan was involved in molesting the
woman on the train. The second jawan escaped to another bogey of the train
taking advantage of chaos, he said.
The victim travelling in the B-1 coach did not have a confirmed ticket and was sitting on the TT's berth, the IG
said.
When the train reached Mirzapur station in Uttar Pradesh,
the TT and other passengers were questioned about the
incident, the IG added. In the preliminary inquiry it was established that the
victim's husband was a tailor at Darjeeling, Kumar said.
He said Patna Rail Superintendent of Police Suresh
Chaudhary was seeking more information from the victim at the
hospital.
Two FIRs have been lodged, one each at Ara and Buxar, at
the GRP police station, police sources said. The DM said the injured girl was carried to Ara junction
on a maintenance trolley by rail employees. The DM and Superintendent of Police of Bhojpur M R Naik
visited the girl at the hospital.