Delhi: Woman gang-raped inside station, 4 railway employees held

DCP (Railways) Harendra Singh said the accused have been identified as Satish Kumar (35), Vinod Kumar (38), Mangal Chand Meena (33) and Jagdish Chand (37) – all railway employees in the electrical department. All four were arrested within two hours of an FIR being registered and were produced before a Delhi court, which sent them to 14-day judicial custody, he added.

“We received a call at 3.27 am on July 22 wherein a woman alleged that she had been raped by two men inside a room at a railway station. During investigation, we found that the incident took place inside a train lighting hut,” he said.

Singh said the woman informed police that she separated from her husband around a year ago and divorce proceedings are underway. “Around two years ago, she met one of the accused, Satish, through a common friend. He told her he is a railway employee and can arrange a job for her too. They started talking over the phone. On July 21, he invited her to his house for a party to celebrate his son’s birthday and the purchase of a new house,” he said.

According to Singh, the accused picked her up from a Metro station around 10.30 pm and took her to the railway station.

Singh said the woman alleged she was asked to sit in the train lighting hut, which is for the electrical maintenance staff. “A few minutes later, the accused along with a friend came inside the room and bolted it from the inside. They sexually assaulted her while two others facilitated the assault by guarding the room from the outside,” he said.

Based on the woman’s complaint, an FIR was registered under IPC sections 376D (gangrape) and 342 (wrongful confinement).

A Northern Railway spokesman said: “While police are investigating the matter, we have taken disciplinary action against the accused staff under rule 14(2) of service conduct rules.”