On Monday night, a Railway Protection Force constable overpowered a man who was trying to sexually assault a 25-year-old woman. The incident took place on an MRTS train and the constable saved the victim. The arrested accused is identified as 26-year-old S Satyaraj. He was arrested by the Government Railway Police before a court sent him to jail.

According to TOI, while traveling on a train from Velachery to Chennai Beach, RPF constable K Shivaji, another constable and sub-inspector S Subbiah, who made up a night patrol squad, heard cries from the nearby women’s coach around 11.45pm. Just after the train pulled out of Chintadripet station the cries went louder, says police. 

Because the MRTS trains don’t have a vestibule; where one can travel from one coach to another, Shivaji waited till the train slowed down before Park Town, the next halt. Even as the train was moving on to the platform, still the constable jumped out and rushed to the neighbouring coach and found Satyaraj trying to assault the woman. He pushed him away and rescued the woman, officials said. The other constable instantly arrived and found the woman unconscious. Her lips were bleeding and her clothes had been torn. They called for an ambulance and rushed her to Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, where doctors said her condition is stable.

Leading to the case, Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel attached to the Chennai Egmore Railway Station booked Satyaraj for an attempt to rape.