Man throws pregnant woman off moving train near Jolarpettai after she resists rape bid
Police in a swift operation arrested the perpetrator, who was identified as Hemaraj of Pooncholai village near KV Kuppam, within 12 hours of the crime by checking the CCTV footage.
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CHENNAI: With every passing day, cases of sexual crime are reported from different corners of the state and the latest to join the list is a horrific act of a pregnant woman thrown out a train in motion by a 27-year-old predator near Katpadi.
Police in a swift operation arrested the perpetrator, who was identified as Hemaraj of Pooncholai village near KV Kuppam, within 12 hours of the crime by checking the CCTV footage.
Police said that the 36-year-old victim, a native of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, boarded the Tirupati-bound intercity express train from Coimbatore around 6.40 pm from Tirupur station on Thursday night. After most of the passengers in the coach alighted at Jolarpettai, the victim was alone, when the 27-year-old man, said to be a history-sheeter, boarded the coach. Exploiting the situation, he made advances towards the woman, who ran towards the restroom to save herself. Angered by the resistance, he pushed her out of the moving train. The woman sustained fractures to her hand and leg.
Passers-by who noticed her falling from the train rescued and rushed her to the Government Medical College Hospital in Vellore.
Investigations by police revealed that the culprit was wanted by the Katpadi railway police station in a robbery case and a murder and rape case was pending at Gudiyatham city police station against him.
The woman has been living with her husband, a tailor, and son in Tirupur for several years.
Meanwhile, the zonal headquarters of Southern Railway announced Rs 50,000 ex-gratia to the victim. A statement released by SR headquarters said that senior officials from SR would be visiting the injured passenger.
The Railway Additional General Manager and Chennai Railway medical officers personally met with the pregnant woman and provided her with a compensation amount of Rs 50,000 on Saturday.
Disclosing that the victim fell between Kavanur and Virinjipuram station, it said, “It is ascertained from the medical officer of Vellore hospital that she is out of danger and has been shifted from the emergency department. An examination by the gynaecology department confirmed that her foetus is safe.”
