Woman Fruit Seller Stabbed To Death At Chennai's Saidapet Railway Station

The man who attacked her escaped from the spot immediately after the incident.

A woman fruit seller was stabbed to death at a railway station in Saidapet on Wednesday. The woman was identified as Rajeshwari, a fruit seller on the local train. She was attacked by the miscreant after she got down from the train at Saidapet railway station at 8.30 PM. 

According to Times of India, the man who attacked her escaped from the spot immediately after the incident by taking another train. 

On Wednesday, Rajeshwari was selling fruits on a train from Beach station. She got off Saidapet railway station when suddenly a man who was on the same train got down and hacked her. 

The woman fell to the ground. She was immediately rushed to the hospital. However, she was declared dead by the doctors, as per a report on India Today. 

The Government Railway police registered a case. Chennai GRP Superintendent of Police Ponramu told Republic that a special team has been formed to arrest the accused. 

The motive of the crime is yet to be ascertained. Further investigations are on.

However, the incident has sent shock waves in the city. In 2016, a woman employee of Infosys was murdered in broad daylight at Nungambakkam railway station in Chennai. The woman was later identified as Swathi. She was 24 at the time of her death.

Around 6.20 am, Swathi's father dropped her off at the Nungambakkam train station on the fateful day. A man approached her at the station as she was waiting for a train to her office. The man began to argue with Swathi while donning a green shirt and black trousers. 

When the argument intensified, the man pulled out a sickle and slashes Swathi multiple times below her jaw. She fell to the ground and started to bleed profusely.