Ambernath woman gets 8 stitches after being hit by object in train
Updated On: 15 December, 2021 08:11 AM IST | Vishal Singh
When the train was about to reach Ambernath, a solid object hit her on the head and then hit the hand of the woman standing next to Uttekar and bounced out of the train
Shraddha Uttekar
A 19-year-old student travelling on a local train was injured by an object thrown into the train and had to get eight stitches on her forehead.
According to the Government Railway Police (GRP), Shraddha Uttekar, a BMS second year student from Ambernath, travels to Vithalwadi to learn typing. On December 11, Uttekar caught the Karjat local back home and was in the ladies coach. She was standing in the passage near the door. When the train was about to reach Ambernath, a solid object hit her on the head and then hit the hand of the woman standing next to Uttekar and bounced out of the train.
Uttekar's forehead started bleeding due to the impact. As soon as Ambernath station came, the women in the coach took Uttekar to the dispensary at the railway station. There she was given first aid. The railway police also informed Uttekar's father who arrived and took her to the nearby Sai Hospital, where she was given eight stitches. She was allowed to go home after that.
The GRP have filed an FIR after taking her statement. Valmik Shardul, senior police inspector of Kalyan GRP, told mid-day, “We are investigating further. We have increased police patrolling near railway tracks.”
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