ByAmid growing concern about the safety of women in trains, a foreign national alleged that she was molested in the Konkan-Kanya Express by a pantry-car worker on Wednesday.The 30-year-old Finnish national was travelling to Mumbai from Madgaon and had boarded the Konkan-Kanya Express at 6 pm on Tuesday. She was travelling with her husband. The couple was allotted berths 19 and 20 of coach HA-1 (Second AC).The couple had come to India on October 30 and had been touring the country since then.The Finnish woman, in her statement to the CST GRP, said that the couple had gone to sleep at around 10 pm after having dinner in the train.The woman was sleeping on the upper berth whereas her husband was sleeping below.At around 2 am, she was woken up by someone who was touching her legs. Thinking that it was an attempt at stealing their luggage, she woke her husband up to check on their belongings. The woman alleged that she was woken up once again by someone touching her calves this time. She screamed for help which made her husband and another copassenger wake up and catch the person who was touching her ‘inappropriately’.On enquiring about the location of the train, she was told that the train was near Diwan Khavati station.The couple, along with the help of their copassengers, held the accused captive until they reached CST station at around 7.30 am, where they handed him over to the GRP.The accused was identified as 30-year-old Rajendra Gopal Singh. It has been alleged by the Finnish couple that he was a coach attendant. However, this has been contested by the public relation officer of Konkan Railways, Siddeshwar Telugu, who said that the accused was part of a pantry worker and was not associated with them.“We registered a case under Section 354 (a) of the Indian Penal Code and produced the accused in the court for a transit remand,” said CST GRP Inspector Manik F Sathe.The FIR was registered under the zero FIR as the incident had happened outside the jurisdiction of the CST GRP.“As the incident occurred under the jurisdiction of the Ratnagiri police, we have transferred the case to them,” he added.The accused has also been handed over to the Ratnagiri police.