Rita Odafe
Incident Involving Pregnant Woman on Train
A man has been arrested for assaulting a pregnant woman from India and forcibly pushing her out of a moving train after she attempted to resist his advances.
This unsettling event took place in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore district on Thursday night, February 6, 2025.
The woman, who is four months pregnant and hails from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, was on board the ladies’ compartment of the Coimbatore-Tirupati Intercity Express.
Upon the train’s stop at Jolarpet railway station, a young man entered the compartment and, noticing the woman was alone, began to molest her.
In her effort to escape, the woman tried to reach the restroom to secure herself, but the assailant pursued her and pushed her from the train as it moved.
She suffered multiple fractures from the fall and was rescued by bystanders who took her to the Government Medical College and Hospital at Adukkamparai in Vellore for medical treatment.
The local police registered the incident and conducted initial investigations with the victim. They analyzed CCTV footage from Katpadi and Jolarpet railway stations, which helped them identify the attacker as Hemaraj from K V Kuppam.
He was subsequently apprehended. Investigations further uncovered that Hemaraj had recently been released on bail after being charged with a murder in Chennai and has several other pending cases against him.
He had previously been charged under the Goondas Act in 2022.
