Title - Stone missile injures woman cop on train

MUMBAI: A 23-year-old woman traffic constable, who was travelling by a Western Railway local early on Tuesday, was critically injured in her face after a stone flung at the train hit her. The stone just about missed Vanita Hazare's right eye.

The Andheri GRP has lodged a case under the Railways Act against the culprit who is yet to be identified.

Hazare, attached to the Malad traffic division, stays at Kandivli with her family. On Monday night, she had gone to her aunt's house in Andheri and the next day, she took a Virar local around 5.30 am, to report to work.

"Hazare was travelling in a first-class compartment, in which she stood near the footboard, facing the Churchgate direction. At 5.32 am, between Andheri and Jogeshwari stations, a stone hit her sharply under her right eye making her cry out in pain, even as her cheek started bleeding," a police said. "The stone was flung from the tracks' western side."

Left feeling dizzy, Hazare waited for a while and got off at Goregaon where the GRP took her to Bhagwati Hospital. By then, her cheek had swollen up and her eye had turned red. After being treated, she reported to work. Around 10.45 pm, Hazare, accompanied by her colleagues, went to Andheri station to record an FIR. "I don't know who hit me with a stone and why. I was very scared and dazed," Hazare said.