Railway Employee Accused Of Molesting Girl, Train Passengers Beat Him To Death
The
employee was beaten to death aboard a train from Bihar's Barauni to New Delhi.
New Delhi: A railway employee was beaten to death by a girl's family members and other passengers aboard a train to New Delhi early on Thursday after he allegedly sexually assaulted the 11-year-old, police said.
According to officials, a family from Siwan had boarded the
Humsafar Express from Bihar's Barauni Bihar to New Delhi on Wednesday and,
around 11.30 pm, Group D railway employee Prashant Kumar made a 11-year-old girl
from the family sit on his seat. When the girl's mother went to the washroom
later, Kumar allegedly molested the girl.
As
soon as the woman came out of the washroom, the girl ran to her, hugged her and
began crying. She took her mother to the washroom and told her what had
happened. The mother then informed her husband, father-in-law and other
passengers in the M1 (AC III tier economy) coach on the train.
The
train had reached the Aishbagh junction in Lucknow when the angry passengers
and family members caught hold of Kumar, took him to the area near the doors of
the coach and thrashed him till the train reached Kanpur Central, which is
about an hour and a half away. When the train rolled into Kanpur Central at
4.35 am on Thursday, officials from the Government Railway Police (GRP) took
Kumar to a hospital, where he was declared brought dead, officials said.
While
the family of the girl filed a complaint of sexual assault, Kumar's family has
filed a complaint of murder.
Kumar's
uncle, Pawan, said the family, which lives in Samastpur village in Bihar's
Muzaffarpur district, found out that he had been beaten to death after an
official from the local police station informed them.
"Prashant
was not that kind of man. It seems he was killed as part of a conspiracy. He
was beaten for so long, were there no personnel from the Railway Police Force
around," he asked.
Superintendent
of Police, GRP (Prayagraj), Abhishek Yadav said, "When the train crossed
Aishbagh, the girl said she had been molested. Her family members and other
passengers beat up the accused. At Kanpur Central, the accused was handed over
to the GRP and a complaint was filed. When he was taken to the hospital, he was
declared dead."
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