A youth allegedly sexually abused a mentally challenged woman while she was waiting to board a train here and has been arrested, police said today.
The woman from a village near Tenkasi in Tirunelveli District had come here along with her mother for treatment and was waiting for a train when the incident occurred late last night, they said.
Balamurugan, in his 30s, had introduced himself to the two women as a native of their village and sexually abused the mentally challeged when she accompanied him to take coffee before sending her back.
The woman’s mother came to know that her daughter had been sexually abused when she saw her bleeding and admitted her to the Government Hospital in Tirumangalam, where the train stopped after leaving Madurai.
Police said they arrested the man by tracking his cell phone.
————–PTI