Mumbai:
A 14-year-old who was released from the Dongri Children's Home recently was sent back there this week after he slashed the face and neck of a female commuter with a nail filer in an Andheri-bound local.
He wiped the blood off the filer using the woman's handkerchief and then jumped out of the running train after snatching her cellphone.
On September 20, Sunita Karmashi Kalsariya (27), was heading home to Andheri after visiting a friend in Mira Road.
Around 10.50 pm, when the train reached Malad, fourteen-year-old Tintin Chaurasia (name changed) boarded the second-class compartment and saw Kalsariya sitting there alone and talking on a cellphone.
He approached her with the ruse of selling a scratch guard and when she refused, attacked her with a nail filer.
"Since it was an Andheri train, it was empty by the time it reached Malad. When Chaurasia attacked Kalsariya, she got scared and offered him money. He took Rs 150 from her but did not budge.
A bleeding Kalsariya then offered more money but the boy snatched her handkerchief, wiped off the blood stains from the filer and then snatched her phone and jumped off from the slowing train as it approached Andheri station," said P M Karyakarte, senior police inspector (GRP), Borivli.
After Kalsariya filed a complaint with the railway police, they traced her phone using the IMEI number to another minor, Sunil Patil (name changed), in Mankhurd.
"Patil told us that Chaurasia had lent him the mobile phone. He led us to Chaurasia and we arrested him from Elphinstone Road," added Karyakarte.
The mobile phone and nail filer was recovered from Chaurasia and he was remanded to the Dongri Children's home on Thursday.
Kalsariya, meanwhile, is still in shock and is resting at home. "Her neck had bled quite a lot. She is still in shock from the incident," said a friend of Kalsariya.