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Women Reped in tambaram-Chennai

  The police have arrested two railway contract employees in connection with the crime In yet another incident that raises the issue of women’s safety in the city, a 40-year-old woman, who fell asleep inside a suburban train, was allegedly raped by two railway contract staff at the Tambaram Railway Yard, early on Saturday. The Government Railway Police (GRP) nabbed the accused soon after the incident.           Police said that the woman is a vegetable vendor, and a resident of the city’s outskirts. She had boarded a train from Pallavaram on Saturday. “She lay down on the floor and slept. She did not realise that she had missed her stop and that the train had reached Chengalpattu and returned to Tambaram Railway Station, and then to the yard,” said B. Padmakumari, GRP Inspector, Egmore, who is in-charge of Tambaram too. At this juncture, two contract staff Suresh (31) and Abdul Ajiz (30), who entered the yard spotted her asleep in the train. The two allegedly sexually assaulted her