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MUMBAI, Nov. 13 -- A 20-year-old woman lost her left arm after she was allegedly molested and pushed onto the railway tracks at Naigaon station in Maharashtra, police said on Thursday, adding that the 53-year-old accused has been arrested.
Police said the incident occurred on November 4 after the woman confronted the accused Jitendra Hirmukhe for allegedly molesting her while they were travelling in the handicapped compartment of a Virar-bound local train. Hirmukhe was arrested on Wednesday from his house in Naigaon and produced in court on Thursday, when he was remanded in police custody, police said.
"Hirmukhe, who was travelling in the same compartment, began touching her inappropriately once the train passed Mira Road. When she confronted him at Naigaon station, he pushed her out of the train, alighted from the train himself and continued arguing with her on the platform," an officer from the Bhayander Government Railway Police station said.
Hirmukhe flew into a rage and pushed her again, this time onto the tracks, in the space between two compartments of a local train. The train started moving even as she was trying to climb up onto the platform, crushing her left arm beneath its wheels, the officer said.
The woman was later shifted to Cooper Hospital, where doctors had to amputate her left arm beneath the elbow due to the severity of her injuries.
"Since the accused had covered his face, it was difficult to identify him. But we traced and identified him by going through CCTV footage. On Wednesday, we arrested him," the officer quoted earlier said....
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