VELLORE: A pregnant woman was molested and pushed out of a speeding train by a youth when she resisted and fought back near Vellore on Thursday night.
Jolarpet railway police said a four-month pregnant woman from Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, was traveling in the ladies’ compartment of the Coimbatore-Tirupati Intercity Express.
A youth boarded the ladies’ compartment when the train stopped at Jolarpet railway station. Noticing that the woman was alone, he began molesting her. The woman resisted his attempts to assault her sexually and ran towards the restroom to lock herself inside. However, the youth chased her and pushed her out of the moving train.
The woman sustained fractures in her upper and lower limbs from the fall. Passersby rescued her and admitted her to the Government Medical College and Hospital at Adukkamparai in Vellore.
Jolarpet police registered a case and conducted preliminary inquiries with the woman. They reviewed CCTV footage from Katpadi and Jolarpet railway stations and identified the molester as Hemaraj from K V Kuppam. He was later arrested.
Inquiries revealed that he was recently released on bail after being arrested for murdering a woman from Chennai. Several cases are pending against him. He was booked under the Goondas Act in 2022.