Woman, daughter jump off train to escape rape
KANPUR: A woman and her daughter jumped off a running train after a group of miscreants attempted to rape the girl on board Howrah-Jodhpur Express, late on Saturday night.
The 40-year-old woman and her 15-year-old daughter, who were travelling from Kolkata to Delhi, were forced to jump off the train when the wayward miscreants tried to drag the girl into the toilet of the general coach they were travelling in, between Chandari and Kanpur railway stations.
After regaining consciousness, the badly injured mother and daughter walked to the railway station where people called the 108 Ambulance and rushed them to the LLR hospital.
Government Railway Police (GRP) came to know about the incident late on Sunday noon.
“We are in the process of registering an FIR on the complaint,” said Ram Mohan Rai, SHO, GRP Kanpur.
The woman’s husband works in a private firm and the daughter is a student of Class 9 in Kolkata. The woman’s complaint to the cops said the group of nearly 10-15 miscreants started taunting and teasing her daughter soon after the train left Howrah.
They also tried to grope the girl following which the mother rushed to the RPF constables escorting the train when it stopped at two stations. She, reportedly, complained about the constant harassment, twice, first when the train was near Allahabad, and again at Allahabad. “The constables accompanied me to the compartment and nabbed three of them. They even slapped them and took them away,” she told HT at Kanpur’s LLR hospital here.
“However, the miscreants came back within 30 minutes, perhaps after bribing cops,” she alleged.
To her horror, they got more aggressive after the train left Allahabad and kept threatening them that they would drug the girl and sell her off. Around 10 pm, four-five boys pounced on the girl when was going towards the toilet.
Hearing her scream, the mother rushed towards them and fought with them before finally jumping off the train with her daughter. “In the struggle, the clothes of the girl got torn. We had to jump off as we had no choice,” she said.
The two remained unconscious for nearly two hours.
After regaining consciousness, they began to walk and reached Chandari, profusely bleeding. The police said her husband has been informed and he was on his way to Kanpur. The woman said said they would submit a formal complaint only after his arrival.
Chief PRO, NCR, Gaurav Bansal said, “The incident took place near Howrah, which is in not under our jurisdiction. When she reported the matter at Rasoolabad near Chandari station, the RPF constables provided her all the assistance and got them admitted to hospital.”