The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh has issued a notice to the Railway Ministry while hearing a suo motu petition in the case of gang rape of a woman in a moving train in 2016 and throwing her from the train. The court has asked what steps have been taken to prevent such incidents. Justice A.R. Masoodi and Justice B.R. Singh’s division bench passed the above order on Monday on the suo motu petition filed on the said incident that took place in Mau.
During the hearing, the court was told that out of the compensation of Rs 4 lakh, Rs 2 lakh 81 thousand has been given to the victim of the incident. On this the court asked why the remaining amount had not been given yet. The next hearing of the case will be in the first week of March.
Let us tell you that despite strict laws in the country, cases of rape keep coming to light. Women are not safe even in moving trains. Recently, an incident of rape of a 28 year old woman inside a moving train came to light in Churu, Rajasthan. Here a man called the woman to meet her saying that his brother has been kidnapped. If she wants that no harm comes to her brother then she will have to do what he wants. The woman was forced to meet him. There, the man forced her into a train and started taking her to Jaipur. During this time, when the woman went inside the train to defecate, the man raped her at the point of a knife.
Woman raped inside AC coach in passenger train
A similar case was also reported from Satna in Madhya Pradesh. Here in December 2023, a 30-year-old woman was raped inside a passenger train. Actually, when the rape incident was committed, the train was almost empty. The woman had to go to Uchehara in Satna itself. During this time, a person was constantly keeping an eye on him. Whereas, the woman was completely unaware of this. During this period, as soon as the woman started going to the AC coach to go to the toilet, the man also started following her. As soon as the man saw that there was no one in the coach, he closed the coach door and raped the woman.