2 Gujarat residents arrested for assaulting lawyer on train
Palghar, May 5 -- The Palghar Government Railway Police (GRP) on Saturday arrested two Gujarat residents for allegedly outraging the modesty of and assaulting a female lawyer while travelling on board the Mumbai Central-Indore Avantika Express. The incident occurred after the Indore-bound train had passed Saphale and the accused were taken into custody when it reached Valsad station, said police officials.
According to the police, the 43-year-old lawyer, a Thane resident, was travelling in the train's general compartment and was headed to Indore, where her son is enrolled in a residential school. An argument broke out between her and 41-year-old Rubina Yunus Pathan, a Surat resident and one of the arrested accused, after the latter accused the lawyer of stealing her purse. Rubina allegedly pulled down her trousers in front of multiple male co-passengers to search for her missing Aadhaar and PAN cards. "When she did not find the identity cards, she attacked the lawyer with a sharp object," a police officer told HT. The lawyer suffered a deep cut on her right arm even as some male passengers to surround her and pulled her hair. Imtehaj Abidbhai Odia, 28, a resident of Bhavnagar and the second arrested accused, threatened to pierce her neck with a key, said the officer quoted earlier.
A GRP team intercepted the train at Valsad station and took the accused duo in custody. They then took the duo and the lawyer to Palghar. They registered a FIR based on the lawyer's complaint and arrested the accused duo....
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