A head constable, who was travelling to his hometown for his annual vacation, nabbed a pervert, who entered the ladies first class coach and attempted to rape a woman in the wee hours of Thursday.

Sanket Mejari, a constable attached to the Tardeo police station, had taken a local train from Sewri to Kharghar, from where he had booked a vehicle to travel to his hometown Kankavali in the Konkan district. "There were hardly any passengers when I got into the 5.05 Panvel train. A woman in her 20s also boarded the train at the same time and sat in the ladies first class coach, which was next to my compartment and separated by a partition," Mejari recalled.