Mumbai: After a video of a ‘drunk’ man hurling expletives and assaulting a woman for sleeping on a local train seat went viral on social media, Andheri GRP tracked down the accused and arrested him on Friday.A case of molestation, criminal intimidation and mischief in a public place has been registered against Mohammad Rizwan Ansari, a salesman from Govandi.The incident occurred in a second-class general compartment of a Western Railway local between Jogeshwari and Andheri stations on Wednesday, around 5pm.The woman, a Nepalese national, was sleeping on a seat when Ansari, who was allegedly drunk, got into the compartment at Jogeshwari station. One of the female commuters filmed the incident where Ansari could be seen yelling at the woman for sleeping on the seat. He also hit her, but co-passengers did not intervene. There appeared to be sufficient seating space in the compartment from the video, but Ansari kept hurling abuses at the woman. After the altercation, he walked away. When the woman warned him against raising his voice, Ansari returned, took out his belt to threaten her and hurled abuses.Police said they identified and tracked down Ansari on the basis of the video clip and CCTV footage from railway stations. Police said Ansari tried to mislead them by claiming that the victim was male and that he had alerted Wadala railway cops about the altercation on his way home.The detection was made by senior inspector Sachin Gavate, supervised by DCP Sunita Salunke-Thakre and commissioner Rakesh Kalasagar.In June, 21-year-old Mayank Lohar was allegedly stabbed to death by a co-traveller, Roshan Suvarna, over an argument about keeping the train compartment door closed amid rain. In a similar incident, in January, college lecturer Alok Kumar Singh was allegedly murdered by a co-traveller, Omkar Shinde, over a trivial argument about alighting at the station.
