Shocking! Uttar Pradesh woman, 5-year-old son robbed, thrown out of moving train; passerby come to the rescue
In a horrific incident a woman was looted of her belongings and money in a moving train and then thrown off from a moving train along with her five-year-old son in Uttar Pradesh’s Chandauli, police said.
The woman, Mamta, was travelling to Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly. She was in the last coach of the train when a man allegedly took Rs 1,000 and her clothes before pushing Mamta and her son off the train, the woman told news agency ANI.
A contractor was waiting at a railway crossing before the Vyasnagar railway station in Varanasi district for the railway gate to open when he saw a woman and a boy falling off the moving train. Janardhan Singh, a contractor rushed to save the mother-son duo, with the assistance of a few passersby and drove them to a nearby hospital.
"They were bleeding. Their injuries looked grave. Saving their lives was the first thing I was concerned about," Singh told ANI.
The hospital authorities informed the police after which they have taken the woman and her son to a hospital in Mughalsarai for further treatment.
Police are investigating the matter. A case has been registered against an unknown person and investigations have begun, police said.
"She is critical and not in a position to speak much. We have initiated a probe based on the initial information given by her," an officer said.
First published: 3 May 2018, 18:00 IST