South Korean woman attacked on train

The railway police arrested 20-year-old Ketan Upadhyay for attacking and robbing a South Korean woman travelling in a local train on Holi.

The railway police arrested 20-year-old Ketan Upadhyay for attacking and robbing a South Korean woman travelling in a local train on Holi.

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Upadhyay, who hails from Gujarat, was arrested from Mumbai Central station on Tuesday evening on charges of robbery and molestation.

On Tuesday, the victim, a tourist from South Korea, was travelling from Mumbai Central to Bandra in a Malad-bound fast train, when the incident took place.

According to the Mumbai Central’s Government Railway Police (GRP) around 11.45 am, the victim boarded the first class ladies compartment from platform number three of Mumbai Central station. There were no other occupants in the compartment. The complainant, after playing Holi in Colaba, was going to meet another group of friends to celebrate.

Police said that as soon as the train left the station, Upadhyay who was seated at the platform, ran quickly and managed to board the same compartment in which the victim was travelling. “When the train was about to reach the Dadar station, Upadhyay threatened the woman and demanded that she surrender all her belongings. But since she could not understand his language, she did not,” said Dattatreya Sidam, assistant commissioner of police, GRP, Bandra division.

The accused then held her neck and the victim got scared and fell down. “She surrendered her purse and her Samsung mobile phone to the accused after which he pushed the woman towards the seat and jumped off the compartment when the train was about to reach the Dadar,” said senior inspector Bharatkumar Rane of the Mumbai Central GRP.

The victim then alighted at Dadar station and lodged a complaint with the GRP.

Around 7.40 pm, Upadhyay was looking for another target on the same platform at Mumbai Central when the railway police spotted him. “Upadhyay, having seen the policemen, started running away. The GRP personnel, who had already been alerted, chased and caught hold of him,” Sidam added.

When Upadhyay was brought to the police station, the victim identified him. The robbed items were also recovered from the accused after he was frisked.

The victim, according to police, came to Mumbai in October 2009 and is staying at Churchgate.