An Ex- Railway employee, attempted to kidnap a 19-year-old girl who disembarked at the Secunderabad railway station, was detained by the railway police on Thursday.
The accused, P. Paramjyothi, aged 52year-old, had t took a crack at the girl to forcefully take her out of the railway station on Tuesday midnight.
The victim, who hailed from Vijayawada, came to visit her relatives in the city, screamed, and it attracted the attention of the Railway police. According to police, they thwarted Paramjyothi plan to kidnap and rape the girl.
Paramjyothi was employeed as a supervisor at the Railway parcel office in Nampally. The railway police said the victim, belonging to Kantrika village, had come to visit her aunt, who lives In Bowenpally.
According to Railway police Sub-Inspector P. Mahesh Kumar, “She got down at the station and was waiting for her cousin to pick her up at around 11 pm. As she waited there, Paramjyothi approached her. He showed his former Railway II) card, and told her that he would take her to his house since it was dangerous to sit in the rail-way station at that hour. He told her that his wife and daughters are there in his house and she will be safe.”
When the girl turned down his offer to go with him, he started threatening her. “The victim started to walk with him. However, she saw cops on platform number 10, and alerted them. The cops caught him,” said the Sub-Inspector.
Police said that Paramjyothi’s wife had died, and he was alone. “When we interrogated, he admitted that he used to roam on the platforms and pick up girls. He said that he had paid the girls for sex,” said the official.