An eight-year-old woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by an Army jawan inside the bathroom of a shifting prepare, and later thrown out of the prepare close to Lonand in Satara district. Despite severe accidents and trauma, the woman was capable of present an correct description of the person that helped in his arrest inside a number of hours of the incident on Tuesday, police mentioned.
According to police, the woman was discovered injured on the tracks between Lonand and Salpa railway stations round 6 am on Tuesday. Police mentioned the woman confirmed braveness and gave all data potential in her situation that helped them arrest the suspect.
The man, who’s a serving jawan, assaulted the minor inside a prepare going from Goa to Delhi, and threw her out when she tried blocking him, police mentioned.
A staff from Government Railway Police (GRP) in Miraj moved the woman to a hospital. After preliminary therapy for a leg damage, police began chatting with her and he or she informed them that she boarded the prepare from Goa for Delhi together with her two siblings and fogeys.
Police mentioned after discovering out through which prepare the household was travelling, they knowledgeable ticket collectors on the prepare, who knowledgeable the woman’s household round 7.30 am. The household was unaware concerning the lacking baby till then as they thought she was sleeping on the higher berth of their compartment, police added.
After gathering preliminary info, police groups recognized and arrested the suspect, whereas the probe revealed that the incident happened round 1 am and the woman was on the tracks for at the least 5 hours earlier than she was discovered. The jawan was inebriated on the time of the incident, police mentioned.
A police official mentioned, “Based on information provided by the girl, we identified the train. The girl also gave us some concrete clues on the description of the suspect. By noon, the train had reached Ahmednagar station. We ordered a closure of compartments of the train and, between Ahmednagar and Bhusawal stations, our teams scanned the compartments for the suspect. We zeroed down on four persons matching the description and, subsequently, identified the suspect, who is a serving Naik and currently posted at a military unit in Uttar Pradesh. He has confessed to the crime and has been placed under arrest. We also made arrangements for the family to come to Satara to be reunited with the girl.”
The officer added, “Solving this case would not have been possible without the courage shown by the girl in spite of her trauma and injuries. She did not just fight back, but also gave us details. She was on the tracks for five hours. Having said this, there were also lapses on part of Railway Protection Force personnel, whose responsibility was to provide security to the compartment. We have come to know that many people in the compartment, including the suspect, were consuming alcohol on the journey. An inquiry needs to be conducted into these lapses too.”
