CHENNAI: A quick mobile phone click by a woman techie who was ambushed and molested by an unidentified man near a washroom aboard a moving train helped the govt railway police track down the culprit, also a techie, and arrest him on Friday.
Police identified the arrested as KV Kishore, 25, a native of Kumarapalayam, near Bhavani, in Namakkal district.
The survivor said she was travelling to Chennai when she was sexually assaulted by the man near a washroom aboard the moving train during the intervening night of Aug 25 and 26. The incident occurred while the train was near Katpadi station. She lodged a formal complaint in Chennai on Aug 28, and the next day police publicised the suspect’s photo.
“The Twitter post uploaded on the GRP handle helped track the suspect,” said an officer, adding that an anonymous caller revealed the suspect’s name and his company.
A police team immediately set to work, tracked him down and picked him up from a friend’s house in the city.
On advice from a lawyer-friend, the survivor walked into Rajiv Gandhi govt general hospital after getting off the train and requested the hospital staff to examine her for any potential sexually transmitted diseases.
She told them she had been sexually assaulted while on the train.
It was the hospital staff who first notified the Chennai Central railway police about the incident. On instructions from GRP police chief, S Vanitha, special teams were formed and one led by superintendent I Eswaran successfully tracked down the suspect.
Police are currently investigating the woman engineer for potential fabrication of details in her complaint. “She exaggerated the complaint as dictated by her lawyer-friend to speed up the police investigation,” said a police officer.
The arrested suspect was remanded in judicial custody after being produced before a magistrate court on Friday.
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