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after the boy unzipped his pants in front of her and flashed her, while making lewd gestures. “I realised that if now I don’t take any step, he can do much worse,” Prajakta recounted. So, she immediately called the Rabale police station which was the next approaching station. “I told them what was happening and sought their help. They asked me to make sure that he is around and devised a plan,” she said.

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A 25-year-old woman who was repeatedly harassed by an eve-teaser managed to get him arrested on Sunday after he allegedly unzipped and exposed himself to her. The woman who was getting groped at and leered by the man daily on the local train journey between Airoli to, alerted the Airoli police who then informed the) and government railway police (GRP) at Rabale and got the man arrested at Airoli.For the past 10 days beautician Prajakta (name changed) was being followed by 24-year-old Santosh Harijan. “He used to board the train from Vashi and would follow me almost to the home in Airoli. Throughout, he kept passing lewd comments,” she claimed. While at first she decided to ignore it, the matters turned for worse. “Since I wouldn’t do anything, he started coming closer. Even though I took the women’s compartment, he took the next one and once I would get down at Airoli, he would use the crowd as a shield and follow me. He even tried to grope me many times,” she added.However, she took a strong action against himThe cops swung into action immediately after the call and informed the RPF and the GRP. It was decided that the pervert would be trapped at Airoli, when he gets off the train to follow the woman. Meanwhile, Prajakta had also called a few friends to the station as she was slightly scared of going home alone.When the train reachedstation, the cops were ready to nab the man. “As soon as I got down, he started following me and even came closer, using the crowd as an excuse. I spotted a uniformed guard and called him out,” she recounted. The man realised that it was for him and tried to escape. However, he was stopped at the gate of the station by the railway police and taken into custody.Investigating officer API LK Sagar said that the boy is jobless and spends his day following women around stations. “We are investigating more but it comes across that he is a repeat eve teaser and has troubled many women,” he said. Santosh has been sent to a five day police custody.