Man accused of raping woman arrested

The police on Thursday held a person in connection with the rape of a woman who was pushed out of a moving train in Cheruthurthy, Shornur on Tuesday night. Railway Police held Charley, 30, from Vadakkancherry railway station.

The 23-year-old woman is battling for her life after she jumped from a running train to escape a molestation bid by a man who entered the woman's compartment of the Ernakulam-Shornur passenger train, police said.

Police said that she was still unconscious and in the ICU of the Government Medical College Hospital at nearby Mulamkunnathukavu.