The Vashi Government Railway Police (GRP) has detained a man who is suspected to have molested two Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) students in a local train on September 11.
The police had been going through closed-circuit television footage from various railway stations on the Harbour Line to trace the accused. They were able to finally nab the suspect on Wednesday night.
“Since the incident took place in a moving train between Vashi and Govandi, we did not have CCTV images. We had been looking for footage from where he boarded or alighted, to get further clues,” Police Inspector Nandakishore Saste, from the Vashi GRP, said.
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Refusing to reveal details about the suspect, Mr. Saste said they will arrest the accused after confirming he is the one who molested the women. According to police, the incident took place on the evening September 11 when the two students were returning from field work in Rabale. They boarded a Harbour train from Rabale to Vashi and took another train from Vashi to Govandi when a man allegedly groped one of them and flashed the other, while touching her inappropriately.
Mr. Saste said, “The complainant belongs to Manipur while her friend is here from Europe as an exchange student. On alighting at Govandi, when the complainant described her ordeal to a friend, she said she too had faced molestation on a local train. One of them wrote about it on social media after which we got in touch with the women and asked them to register a first information report. They registered the case on Monday night.”
The complainant had managed to click the picture of the alleged molester and posted it on social media. She had also written about the other commuters who chose to remain silent spectators.
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