UP: 35-year-old woman loses leg after being raped, tossed out of train

MAU: A 35-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a moving train and pushed out of it, an incident which resulted in loss of her right leg in Mau district of Uttar Pradesh.

Though the rape was yet to be confirmed, a Government Railway Police (GRP) official said the woman fell from the running train and lost her right leg in the mishap. "We are looking into the matter and the guilty will not be spared," GRP official Sudhir Singh said yesterday.

Villagers noticed the woman, who was screaming in pain, yesterday morning near Khazakhurd railway station. She was lying without clothes, indicating that she might have been raped before being tossed out of the compartment, they said.

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The woman alleged that she was going home in Shahganj by Tamsa passenger train Saturday night when two men outraged her modesty and threw her out of the moving train. She has been moved to a hospital in Varanasi.

Not the first time
Earlier this month, a college girl received serious head injuries after being pushed out of a moving train by a man attempting to snatch her purse in Bareilly. The incident occurred near Abhaypura railway station on the Lucknow-Lalkuan section when the girl was going to college with her sister.

Another woman passenger was robbed and thrown off a Lucknow-bound express train by unidentified persons near Chitbaragaon railway station on Chappra-Varanasi section in Ballia district last month.