After the sensational highway hold-up and gangrape in Bulundhshar which rocked the state, criminals struck at a train on Friday and robbed a 24-year-old woman engineer before throwing her from the running train for resisting. The injured woman was now battling for her life at a private hospital at Bareilly.
Surprisingly, the police concealed the heinous crime on Saturday and the victim’s family for not reporting it to them. A case was registered after 24 hours with the Government Railway Police (GRP) station in Bareilly and efforts were now underway to identify the miscreants through Close Circuit Television (CCTv) footage.
As per reports, Jagrati Sharma, an engineer going under training in a multinational mobile company, boarded the lucknow-Kathgodam Express at Izzatnagar to go to Kichcha railway station when some miscreants boarded train at Bhojipura railway station.
As thetrain chugged out of the station, some miscreants tried snatch her purse to which the victim resisted. This riled the robbers who pushed her out of the train and made good their escape. In the process, the woman professional was seriously injured.
The train was stopped by passengers by pulling the chain and the victim was rushed to Bhojipura Primary Health Centre by the RPF. She was later taken to SRMS Medical College hospital, Bareilly in a serious condition. The victim is a resident of Shastri Nagar at Bareilly and was on her way to Rudrapur (Uttarakhand) to join her duty.