Five special teams of the government railway police (GRP) are probing Monday’s incident wherein a woman software professional was pushed out of a moving suburban train by a thief. The victim remains in hospital and is stable.
The incident took place around 10 p.m. on Monday when Muneeshwari Nagaraj (28), a software engineer, was travelling in the ladies’ compartment of the suburban train from Tambaram Sanatorium.
After the train passed Park station, a young man snatched her five-sovereign gold chain.
She fought back when he attempted to grab her handbag but he pushed her from the moving train. Muneeshwari broke her left arm and was admitted to the Government Stanley Hospital.
The Egmore GRP say they are examining CCTV footage from various stations on the way to Fort to determine the suspect.
Railway police personnel in plainclothes have also been posted inside train compartments in an attempt to nab the suspect, the police said.
Man gets RI for pushing co-passenger off trainThe Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Chengalpattu, has slapped five years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) on a passenger found guilty of pushing a co-passenger off a moving train.
The incident took place on January 27, 2007, when Arunachalam (55) of Karasankal village near Achirapakkam, travelling in a Tirupati-Puducherry train, questioned Senthil (30) of Panruti after the latter harassed a woman passenger. Senthil hit out at Arunachalam and subsequently pushed him off the moving train. Arunachalam sustained grievous injuries.
Senthil was arrested and a charge-sheet was filed against him at the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Chengalpattu.
On Wednesday, the chief judicial magistrate S. Jawahar sentenced him to five years’ RI, and also imposed a fine of Rs. 200 on him.
