In a shocking incident, an Army jawan was arrested on the charges of trying to outrage the modesty of a minor girl on a running train here on Friday. According to railway DSP DN Mahesh, Clement from Allepey, who is working with the electrical wing at the western army headquarters, Mumbai was travelling in Bokoro Express in a reserved coach. There was also a family of railway employee travelling in the same coach.
Late in the night, Clement is believed to have got down from his berth and attacked a 13-year old girl sleeping in the middle berth. Shocked to see a man occupying the berth in which her daughter was sleeping, her mother immediately alerted the TTE as well as the other passengers, who took him into custody.
The staff and passengers handed over Clement to the railway police when the train reached Vijayawada in the morning. DSP said that the jawan was arrested under the Section 354 of IPC and sent to judicial custody.
-via The Times of India.
