Woman gangraped in train coach in Haryana’s Panipat, thrown on track, loses leg

After sexual assault in empty compartment of stationary train in Panipat, three accused took her to Sonepat and threw her on track and she lost leg as train ran over her.

A 35-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped in an empty compartment of a stationary train in Panipat, police said on Monday.

A 35-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped in an empty compartment of a stationary train in Panipat, police said on Monday. (Representational image)

The police received a missing report about the woman on June 26. Her husband told them that she had been missing since June 24 after a quarrel. He said that this had happened earlier also but she would return on her own.

Meanwhile, the woman told the police that she was sitting at a nearby railway station when a person, claiming to have been sent by her husband, approached her. “She said he took her with him and boarded an empty compartment of a stationary train where he raped her. Later, two other men joined him and raped her,” Shri Niwas, the Quilla police station house officer (SHO) said.

The woman said later she was taken to Sonepat, where the accused threw her on the rail tracks and she lost a leg when a train ran over her. She was later admitted to a hospital and is undergoing treatment, Niwas said.