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A 42-year-old caput constable attached to R.S. Puram constabulary successful Coimbatore was arrested by Government Railway Police (GRP), Arakkonam, successful Ranipet implicit allegedly intersexual harrassment charges by a pistillate commuter successful a moving train.
The constabulary said the arrested idiosyncratic was identified arsenic Sheikh Abdullah. The fishy was arrested aft the bail petition filed by him earlier the Supreme Court was rejected recently. Police said it was connected December 20, 2025, fishy Abdullah was returning to Coimbatore from Chennai successful the wide compartment of an explicit train. Police said that during the journey, Abdullah has reportedly sexually harassed a instrumentality student, who was sitting adjacent to him and travelling to Coimbatore. She filmed the incident, which went viral successful societal media platforms, inviting a nationalist outcry.
Police said the subsister reported the incidental to GRP constabulary astatine Katpadi railway presumption aft halting the train. Subsequently, she filed an online ailment against the constable, who managed to get anticipatory bail. Police said based connected an Departmental inquiry, the constable was suspended by the territory police. Meanwhile, Abdullah filed a petition for bail connected information earlier the Supreme Court. The bail petition was rejected recently. Following it, the constable was arrested successful Coimbatore. Later, helium was lodged astatine Central Prison successful Vellore. A probe is underway.
