Kasargod: Rape attempt on minor in moving train - two arrested

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Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Apr 24: Two persons were arrested by the railway police at Kannur on Monday April 22 for allegedly attempting to rape a co-passengers in a moving train.

The arrested are identified as Murugesh (27) and Saghilesh (24), both from Kozhikode Beypore. They are construction workers.

A family from Thiruvananthapuram, comprising parents and two daughters, was returning home in a train after visiting Kollur, when the incident occurred.

As soon as the Mangalore-Thiruvananthapuram train moved out of the railway station here at about 2.30 pm on Sunday April 21 and was passing through the railway tunnel at Kalanadu, the accused, taking advantage of the darkness, suddenly embraced the 13-year-old girl and tried to rape her, it is said. The girl raised an alarm. The other passengers in the compartment helped the girl and her family, besides handing over the accused to the personnel of Railway Protection Force at Kannur.

The railway police, to whom a complaint was made by the girl's father, after inquiry, have transferred the case to Kannur police station, where a case stands registered.

8-year-old girl from Kerala gang-raped at Tiruppur

In another incident, an 8-year-old was hospitalized after she was allegedly gang-raped at Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu by some drunken youth recently.

The girl, a native of  Ernakulam, happens to be the daughter of a woman who works in a garments factory in Tiruppur. The police have arrested four persons residing in the neighbouring house relating to the incident. The police are looking for four more accused relating to the case.

The woman had left behind her daughter at the housing quarters provided by the garments factory. In the evening, on returning home, she saw her daughter lying in a serious condtion. She got the girl admitted into the hospital, where gang rape was established. Initially, the personnel of a nearby police station hesitated about registering the case, it is said. Later, the police were pressurized into registering the case, with the intervention of some Malayalee organizations in Tiruppur, it is said.

It is said that the youth involved with the rape were drunk. As soon as the details of the incident spread, thousands of people took to streets, and protested by blocking traffic. Some relatives and Malayalee organizations have demanded for shifting the girl from the hospital in Coimbatore where she is being treated now, to a hospital in Kerala state.

The incident, coming in the wake of the much-publicized rape cases of New Delhi, has taken the people by surprise and shock. Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, has expressed deep concern about the incident, and promised to extend all help for the treatment of the girl.