A 20-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 40-year-old man in the ladies' compartment of a moving Mumbai local train when she was travelling alone on Wednesday morning. The accused was arrested after nearly eight hours of the incident, a GRP official said.
The girl boarded the Harbour line local train at CSMT on Wednesday morning. As soon as the train started moving, a man entered the ladies' compartment which was empty at that time, the official said.
"He allegedly sexually assaulted the woman between CSMT and Masjid stations at around 7:26 am. He got down at Masjid station (the next station after CSMT) when the girl raised an alarm, and he ran away," the official said.
The girl approached the GRP and lodged a complaint, following which an FIR was registered against an unidentified person, the official said.
"Teams of personnel of GRP, Railway Protection Force (RPF), crime branch and Mumbai police launched a manhunt for the accused. The police examined footages of CCTV cameras inside and outside the Masjid station. He was subsequently identified and nabbed at around 4 pm," the official said.
The accused is a daily wage worker.
A case was registered against him under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including rape. Further investigation is underway, the official added.