PUNE: Showing amazing courage, an eight-year-old daughter of the ex-serviceman not just fought a 33-year-old military jawan who attempted to sexually attacked her in a bathroom of a moving train in Maharashtra at the wee hours of Tuesday and drove her on paths but also helped the authorities nab him by giving his description.
The alleged incident happened on the Goa-Nizamuddin Express involving Lonand and Salpa railroad stations in Satara district in western Maharashtra, also a senior officer said.
“The woman was traveling to Delhi along with her mother, dad, sister and sister,” explained Sadanand Wayse Patil, superintendent of police (Pune branch ), Government Railway Police (GRP).
The accused, after recognized as Prabhu Malappa Uphar, supposedly picked up the woman while she had been fast asleep in her berth and took her into the bathroom, he explained.
Even though the accused attempted to sexually attack her, the woman awakened and resisted his progress and began yelling, the SP said.
The accused subsequently told that the woman he was carrying her back into his parents, but later coming from the bathroom, he pushed down her train.
“Luckily, the train has been going slowly as a result of ghat section because of the woman lasted less grievous harms.
On Tuesday afternoon, a few locals seen her lying on the railroad tracks and forced her into a hospital,” explained Wayse- Patil.
In the clinic, the woman not just narrated the ordeal but additionally supplied the description of this jawan person to the authorities which proved very important.
“We launched a search operation at the train and arranged that nobody ought to get down in the train.
At least 400 authorities and GRP constables stopped the train at different stations to make sure the accused doesn’t flee,” he explained.
Throughout the search, authorities identified 30 passengers whose description matched together with the defendant.
“We short-listed four suspects from the 30 and eventually identified Uphar.
He had been apprehended while the train was close to Bhusaval in north Maharashtra,” the officer stated.
The woman, who sustained injuries in her thighs and beneath the brow was later reunited with her loved ones.
Uphar is currently a jawan of all Naik ranking and published in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh.
(The victim’s identity has not been shown to shield her privacy according to Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)