Mumbai local horror: Woman loses arm after being pushed off train for resisting bad touch; accused arrested

PTC Web Desk:  A young woman lost her left arm and needed 16 stitches on her head after she was allegedly pushed off a Mumbai local train by a co-passenger she had objected to for touching her inappropriately. The case has again raised questions about the safety of women in local trains.

The police have arrested the accused, identified as Jitendra Hirmukhe, 53, a resident of Naigaon East.

According to the woman’s complaint, she was travelling on a local train from Borivali to Virar when the man kept touching her inappropriately. Angered by this, she threw her slipper at him, which led to an argument between the two.

Other passengers in the coach tried to step in and calm the situation. The accused, however, kept abusing her and threw his own slipper at her, the complaint says.

The quarrel did not end there. When the train reached Naigaon station, the man allegedly pushed her out of the coach. She fell into the gap between two coaches and suffered grievous injuries, including the loss of her left arm.

Hirmukhe was arrested after the woman’s complaint.

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Meanwhile, a CCTV video has surfaced showing the man accused of pushing a woman off a Mumbai local train after she objected to sexual harassment walking away from the spot as if nothing had happened.

The accused, identified as 53-year-old Jitendra Hirmukhe, who has since been arrested, is seen in a red shirt moving briskly along the railway platform. He makes his way through the crowd and stops for a moment to exchange a few words with another passenger, before turning left and going out of the camera’s view.

The footage then shows him coming back into the frame and walking the entire length of the platform. Towards the end of the clip, he looks uneasy and briefly holds his forehead before walking away.