In a tragic turn of events, the hospital has declared the four-month-old unborn baby of a pregnant harassment survivor, who was thrown off a train by her assailant, dead.
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On the night of 6 February 2025, near Vellore, a pregnant woman was molested and pushed out of a speeding train by a youth when she resisted and fought back. According to Jolarpet railway police, the woman, who is four months pregnant and hails from Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, was traveling in the ladies’ compartment of the Coimbatore-Tirupati Intercity Express.
The youth boarded the ladies’ compartment when the train halted at Jolarpet railway station. Upon noticing that the woman was alone, he began to molest her. She resisted his attempts to sexually assault her and ran towards the restroom to lock herself inside. However, the youth chased her and pushed her out of the moving train.
As a result of the fall, the woman sustained fractures in her upper and lower limbs. Passersby came to her rescue and admitted her to the Government Medical College and Hospital at Adukkamparai in Vellore. The Jolarpet police registered a case and conducted preliminary inquiries with the woman. They reviewed CCTV footage from Katpadi and Jolarpet railway stations and identified the perpetrator as Hemaraj from K V Kuppam. He was subsequently arrested.
Further inquiries revealed that Hemaraj had recently been released on bail after being arrested for the murder of a woman from Chennai. He has several pending cases against him and was booked under the Goondas Act in 2022.
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