Kolkata Jan 22 PTI A woman was allegedly molested inside an empty womens compartment of a running local train near Dumdum station in West Bengals North 24 Parganas district a senior official of the Eastern Railway saidOn the basis of a complaint the GRP and RPF arrested a 32-year-old man on Saturday evening for his alleged involvement in the incident he saidThe accused a resident of Rahara in North 24 Parganas district was booked under IPC sections 323 voluntarily causing hurt and 354 Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modestyThe victim who is a tattoo artist video-recorded the man using her mobile phone which helped the railway police personnel identify and arrest himThe GRP and the RPF jointly arrested the accused They checked the video grab made by the woman as well as CCTV footage to identify the accused man the official saidThe woman in her late 20s had boarded the Santipur-Sealdah train from Phulia in Nadia district on Friday at around 630 pm By the time it reached Dumdum there was no other passenger in that womens compartment and the accused got into it in that stationShe started a Facebook Live session when the man allegedly demanded money from her and touched her inappropriatelyAs per the complaint lodged by the victim at the Dumdum GRP the man had got down at Sealdah the next station the train stopped after Dumdum PTI SCH NN NN

Kolkata Sep 28 PTI A day after quitting the Congress former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro on Tuesday arrived in Kolkata where he is likely to join the Trinamool Congress TMC party sources said He was received at Dumdum airport by senior TMC leaders West Bengal minister Sujit Bose and Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen Luizinho Faleiro arrived in Kolkata on Tuesday evening He and his supporters will join the TMC on Wednesday a senior party leader told PTI Faleiro was accompanied by a former Congress leader from Goa and he did not speak to reporters on arrival in the eastern metropolis Shortly before resigning as the MLA and primary membership of the Congress on Monday Faleiro had said that the country needs a leader like West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi The Congress veteran who was the chief of the campaign committee for the upcoming assembly elections alleged that the partys Goa unit was run by a coterie of leaders who prioritise only self-interest Addressing his resignation letter to All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi Faleiro who represented Navelim assembly seat described the Goa Congress unit as a cruel parody of what the Congress stands for TMC Rajya Sabha leader Derek OBrien during his visit to Goa had said that the party would contest the assembly polls due early next year and they were in touch with several local leaders He had said that the party will announce its chief ministerial candidate soon In the 2017 assembly elections in Goa Congress had bagged the highest number of seats at 17 in the 40-member House restricting the BJP to 13 but it was outsmarted by the saffron party which formed a coalition government along with regional parties PTI PNT SUS ACD ACD