Statesman News Service
MALDA, Nov 30: An unidentified passenger fell off a moving train at about 5 a.m. today and died after struggling for his life lying between two railway tracks (Up and Down) for nearly five hours.
This inhuman incident took place at Jadupur village in English Bazaar police station area.
Neither railway officials nor government railway police (GRP) attended him since morning despite several reminders from the local villagers and eyewitnesses.
After receiving information from local journalists, who reached the spot at 9 a.m., the English Bazaar police and GRP officials both reached there at 9.45 a.m., when the injured passenger had succumbed to his injuries.
Not only the villagers but also the guards for railway tracks on night duty found the injured man (around 30 years of age) and tried to communicate the information to the Malda town station. But this information was finally conveyed to the GRP about 8.20 a.m.
A woman, Mrs Kostila Mandal, found the injured man with Nepali features, and informed other villagers when he was begging for medical assistance.
Villagers tried to stop several Malda station bound trains showing red cloths seeking help to send him to the town station. They even tried to draw the attention of the "key man" of several trains passing along the busy tracks since dawn but no one responded to them.
“I tried hard to stop trains to intimate the serious condition of the injured man who fell off the train at dawn. No driver of any train responded to my appeal,” said Mr Gedu Sarkar.
Mr Sarkar also came to a nearby railway gate at Malanchapally in English Bazaar town later to inform the matter to Malda station.
Villagers admitted that they did not take risk to rescue the wounded man (to send him to a nearby district hospital) fearing police harassment if he succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital.
“Had we sent him to hospital he would have survived,” they now said.
The inspector-in-charge of Malda GRP, Mr Swapan Dasgupta said: “We have received information officially from the railway at about 8.20 a.m. On receiving information our staff rushed to the spot and found him dead.”
“The passenger fell off the train in any case. We took photographs of him for sending messages to concerned police and GRP stations for public information to trace his address and relatives,” Mr Dasgupta said.
The body was finally sent for a postmortem at 10 a.m. today.
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