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Woman thrown out of train for resisting molestation bid in Haryana, dies
The woman’s husband, who was waiting for them at the Tohana railway station, said his son was inconsolable when he narrated to him how his mother was pushed from the train.
A 30-year-old woman was allegedly thrown out of a running train for fighting back a man who tried to molest her, near Haryana’s Tohana station in Fatehabad, police said on Friday. A 28-year-old man, who was allegedly inebriated at the time of the incident, has been arrested in connection with the case, an official said.
The incident took place around 9.30pm on Thursday, when the woman and her nine-year-old son boarded a passenger train near Lakhan Majra in Rohtak to travel to Tohana, said an official. The entire coach was empty, except for the three passengers, when the accused approached the victim, the official added.
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“The accused boarded the train at Narwana in Jind. After seeing the woman alone with a child, he tried to molest her. As she fought back, the accused pushed her off the train and fled the spot,” railway police sub-inspector Jagdish Singh said. The victim’s body was found on the railway track near the Tohana station on Friday morning, he added.
When the train pulled into the station at Tohana town in Fatehabad, the woman’s husband saw the child alone, crying, the police said, adding that the child then told his father what happened.
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“My wife called me when she was 20 kilometres away and asked me to come to the station and pick them up,” the woman’s husband told the police. They were returning from her parents’ home, he added.
Police have identified the accused as Sandeep Kumar, a resident of Kalwan in Jind’s Narwana.
“Sandeep is a drug addict and was drunk when the incident took place,” said Fatehabad police superintendent Astha Modi.
He was later arrested and booked under sections 302 (murder) and 354 (assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code.
