Woman raped, pushed out of moving train in UP

A 35-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a moving train and then thrown off in Mau district. The victim’s right leg had to be amputated.

A government railway police (GRP) official, however, denied rape and said that the woman fell from the running train and lost her right leg in the mishap.

“We are looking into the matter and the guilty will not be spared,” GRP official Sudhir Singh said on Sunday.

The woman, screaming in pain, was noticed by villagers near the Khazakhurd railway station under the Sarai Lakhansi police station on Sunday morning.

She was lying without clothes which indicated that she had been sexually molested.

The woman said that she was going home in Shahganj area in adjoining Jaunpur district by Tamsa passenger train on Saturday night when two men raped her and threw her out of the moving train.

The villagers brought her to Khurhat railway station for treatment at the district hospital here, but since her condition was serious she was referred to Varanasi. Photographs of the woman went viral on news channels and social media.

Uttar Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of recording the second highest number of crimes in railways after Maharashtra.