JOIN USA 23-year-old woman was reportedly molested by a male co-passenger in a shared autorickshaw and later thrown out of the vehicle in the city, police said on Friday.
The incident comes close on the heels of a woman being raped and her nine-month-old baby flung to the ground and killed to smother her cries by three men travelling with her in a shared auto in Gurgaon.
The Thane victim, who sustained injuries due to the fall on Thursday night, was rescued by some passersby and admitted to a hospital where she is undergoing treatment, police said.
The woman, a management graduate working with a fitness firm at Mulund in adjoining Mumbai, was returning home from work around 9.30 pm when she got into the shared autorickshaw, in which a male passenger was already seated, at Mulund Check Naka to reach her home on Ghodbunder road in Thane city.
When the autorickshaw proceeded a little distance, the co-passenger reportedly started touching her inappropriately to which she objected and raised an alarm, Thane police PRO Sukhada Narkar said.
However, the auto driver, instead of paying attention to the alarm raised by her, took a turn and headed the vehicle towards Pokhran Road No. 2 in Thane.
Later, the co-passenger and the auto driver reportedly beat up the woman.
They then pushed her out of the vehicle at an isolated spot on Pokhran Road and fled, Narkar said.
Some passersby found the woman lying on the road and took her to a hospital.