“Uncle, please keep your hand down.” The woman says she said it politely. The man, she wrote, ignored her.
Identified as Annu in Hindustan Times, she described the incident in an Instagram post that has since spread widely. It happened on July 3, she said, on a train from Siwan to Patliputra. She was in the general coach, asleep on an upper berth. At Chhapra a group of elderly men took the seats below her.
“While I was asleep, one of them repeatedly stretched his hand up from behind and kept touching me,” she wrote. After she objected, she said, he stopped briefly and then started again, this time trying to touch her from the front. She sat up and moved as far along the berth as she could. Another elderly man then reached up and touched her too, she alleged.
She left the coach. The next general compartment was completely overcrowded, so she sat outside an AC coach.
A young man found her there, she said. He introduced himself as a staff member of Adarsh Pariksha Kendra and told her he could help her clear an examination for a small amount of money. She refused, and by her account he kept asking for her phone number anyway. “Just save my number as a brother-it might help you someday,” she quoted him as saying. He got off at Dighwara. “Only then did I finally feel a little safe,” she wrote.
She ended the post with a question: “Are girls even safe while travelling on trains? What kind of mentality do some men have today?”
Online response
Users flooded the comments. One wrote that the account was “truly disturbing” and said they hoped the authorities would take such incidents more seriously. Another urged her to call out anyone who behaves like this loudly and in public, arguing that predators count on silence. A third put it in one line: “Women’s safety is still a distant dream i guess.”
Hindustan Times said it had reached out to the woman and would update its report once she responded. The account of the incident rests on her post alone.
Sources
- Woman alleges repeated harassment by men on Bihar train: 'Are girls even safe while travelling'
- 'He Kept Touching Me': Woman Alleges Men Harassed Her On Bihar Train, Says She Felt Unsafe Throughout Journey – VIDEO
