Kasaragod : Railway police arrested a 24-year-old man for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a blind woman on a moving train in Kasaragod on Sunday. The arrested person is Ayyappa from Karnataka .
The survivor, 49, was travelling in the coach reserved for specially-abled persons of a special train bound for Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai.
The accused boarded the train from Kannur and attacked her when the train reached Payyannur, police said. In an attempt to escape from him, she asked her son to pull the emergency chain to stop the train, police said. She was returning home along with her nine-year-old son after attending a meeting in Ernakulam. When the train passed Kozhikode, only the woman and her son remained in the coach. He pushed her off her seat and tightly choked her around the face and neck. When the train stopped, the accused jumped off and boarded a nearby coach. The railway staff intimated the incident to Kasaragod railway police. The police reached the spot and arrested the accused with support from other passengers.