Bhopal: A 21-year-old woman from Delhi was allegedly raped on Friday by a pantry manager from Karnataka Sampar Kranti Express after he threatened to throw it away from the train running if he refused and killed him if he spoke to anyone about it.
Survivor traveled without a ticket.
As soon as the suspect let him go, the woman ran to fellow passengers, who then told the police.
The train was stopped in Bhopal around midnight and the police detained all 14 Pantry staff except the suspect, who had sneaked out when they arrived.
Pantry manager was arrested in Jhansi, 330km left, on Saturday.
The police identified him as Bhupendra Tomar, 30, from Porsa in MP Regency MP.
Survivors are under medical care.
He went to Mumbai to find a job three days ago but changed his mind and decided to return to his parents in Delhi, he said in his complaint.
According to his statement, he took the train from Mumbai to Bhusawal, where he rises Sampark Kranti Express which is bound in Delhi at night, said Bhopal GRP Sho Dinesh Singh Chouhan.
He admitted he was traveling without a ticket and tried to spend the night outside the AC compartment.
Around 8:30 a.m., a man in a blue shirt told him to go to one of the general compartments.
He forcibly took him, but stopped near the Pantry car and told him that he could sleep near the gate.
“The defendant arrested him and dragged him to a warehouse in a pantry car where he raped him,” Chouhan said.
After the attack, the victims went to the next coach to seek help.
A group of them went to the pantry car, but found that the staff had locked themselves.
Passengers stood keeping at the door to make sure no one escaped.
When the train was pulled to Bhopal Station, the police went up and took the woman to their care.
All 14 men in the pantry car were detained but the manager of the pantry was lost.
The police chased him.
A few hours later, the suspect Tomar was rounded up in Jhansi and taken to Bhopal.
(The identity of the victim has not been disclosed to protect his privacy in accordance with the direction of the Supreme Court about cases related to sexual violence)