Girl raped in Toofan coupe, TTE in 5 held

A 19-year-old girl, who boarded the Howrah-bound Toofan Express at Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh yesterday, was repeatedly raped in a First Class coupe. The girl lost consciousness and was found by Railway police personnel when the train halted at Madhupur in Jharkhand this afternoon.

GRP personnel, who had detained a vendor on the charge of suspicion, later made the train stop at Chittaranjan, the next station , and took into custody three other vendors and a train ticket examiner (TTE). Another TTE had disappeared and the police were looking for him.

Doctors at the Madhupur railway hospital, who examined the girl, confirmed rape.