Summary:
NINE DAYS after a teacher jumped off a running train near Masjid Bunder station to escape a stalker, a man was arrested in connection with the incident on Monday. On February 9, a 35-year-old woman had boarded the ladies compartment of a train at CSMT station on way to her school in Parel. The police retraced his steps to CSMT station and found that on February 9, he had walked to the station from SNDT Women’s University in Churchgate. Subsequently, the police found that the man, identified as Ashrafali alias Sameer Shaikh, had been previously arrested in multiple cases of theft and sexual harassment. The police said that Shaikh shut one of the compartment doors and started walking towards the woman, who jumped out of the other door..