When push comes to a shove, it's death on the tracks

VIJAY UPADHYAY

FIROZABAD, 24 JAN. Army jawans on Sunday morning got into a quarrel with fellow passengers and threw them out of the compartment directly on the path of an oncoming train. Five persons were killed and one was critically injured when they were run over by the speeding train after being thrown out of stationary Farakka Express near Shikohabad railway station in Uttar Pradesh. The Railway Police has arrested four Army men in this connection.

The incident on the Delhi-Kanpur section occurred when some passengers entered a compartment of the Delhi-bound Farakka Express occupied by troops belonging to Rajputana Rifles, the police said. This led to a scuffle with the jawans, protesting the intrusion saying it was a compartment for Army personnel. Talking to The Pioneer, Superintendent of Police, Railways-Agra, Raj Bahadur said that five people who were travelling in the general compartment of Farakka Express had a quarrel with some Army personnel who were travelling in the train from Kanpur to Tundla. The quarrel started at Etawah station where the passengers had boarded the train and took a serious turn in Shikohabad, about 25 km from Firozabad district, when the Army men pushed all five people, including a woman, out of the train on the opposite track, where they were crushed to death under the speeding Sampoorna Kranti Express that was coming on that track.

Out of the four defence personnel who have been arrested, three have been identified as Lance Nayak (LNK) Jasvinder Singh, LNK Pradeep Kumar and LNK Brijendra Kumar of 20 Rajputana Rifles Regiment, Faizabad, while the fourth has been identified as Viplav Vishwas, a BSF trooper, who was going to report on his duty in the Kupwara sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Four of the people who were killed in the incident, including one woman have been identified while one still remains to be identified.

According to reports reaching Allahabad at the NCR headquarters, some military personnel were travelling in a general coach, next to the engine, in 3483 Farakka Express train. At around 4.40 am, some passengers and the jawans clashed together and the ordinary passengers were forced to leave the compartment. As soon as the Farakka Express train reached Shikohabad, the passengers were almost kicked out. Passengers tumbled out of the compartment but were crushed by the 2393 Sampurna Kranti Express train, which was steaming in at that very moment. Five of the passengers, including a woman, died on the spot.

Three of the deceased were identified as Sukhram, 25, son of Laxmi Chand, Mahesh, son of Preetam Chandra Pura Navedi, Etawah, and Nemi Lal Rathore, son of Khude Lal Rathore of Bijnore, Bhind.
(UNITED NEWS NETWORK)


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