Crime

MP: 21-Year-Old Woman’s Throat Slit In Moving Train As She Resists Sexual Harassment

Mumbai: In a shocking Incident 21-year-old woman was allegedly killed inside a moving express train by assailants who slit her throat after an attempt of sexual assault in Sehore in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday night, police said.

The incident took place in Indore-Bilaspur train around 2 km before Sehore railway station and the victim identified as Muskan Hada died before the train arrived at the station, Sehore district’s senior police official SS Chouhan told reporters.

“Passengers travelling in the train heard of some commotion in the running train. Suddenly, they saw a woman rushing towards them and before she could sit on a berth, she fell down and collapsed,” Mr Chouhan said.

“The victim’s brother had called ”Dial-100” police assistance number complaining that some people were trying to molest his sister travelling in the sleeper coach of Indore-Bilaspur train following which few policemen reached the station to look into the problem,” Mr Chouhan added.

However, the Eyewitnesses in the train said the accused first attempted to molest the woman and when she resisted they slit her throat. The woman breathed her last before the train reached the Sehore station.

Eyewitnesses told police that the accused slit woman’s throat using some sharp-edged weapons.

Meanwhile, according to police, the woman’s father is lodged in jail and she was making attempts for his release on bail. Police are yet to make any arrests so far in the case.

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