Indore railway police on Monday arrested a cop on the charge of misbehaving with a woman passenger in an Indore-bound passenger train from Bhopal.
The accused identified as Narayan Singh Thakur had reportedly eve-teased a woman passenger, who had boarded the train from Bhopal on Monday morning along with her family. later following complaint of the victim, the railway police registered the case against the said cop under section 354 and subsequently, arrested him after he landed in Indore.
According to railway TI Mangilal Chouhan, the complainant, a resident of Sawarkar Nagar, Indore had boarded S 3 bogey of a passenger train from Bhopal on Monday along with her son, daughter and a female relative. As she had three confirmed tickets, all the four passengers boarded in the same bogey.
In the meantime, the accused cop boarded the same bogey at a station. Claiming himself to be a cop, he asked the complainant to go to another bogey, but the woman refused. Subsequently, he got seated beside her and started misbehaving.
As the train arrived in Indore, the woman complained about the incident to a RPF jawan while he was checking the train. The RPF jawan brought the accused cop to railway police station where he was arrested after a complaint against him was registered under section 354 of the IPC.
According to railway police sub inspector R C Dube, the accused Narayan Thakur is basically a native of Honshangabad and is posted in police radio department in Indore. Currently, he was undergoing training at Ujjain for Simhasth.