Bareilly Railway Station witnessed uproar after an Army soldier got injured in an accident.
As per information, the jawan who was travelling on the Rajdhani Express was pushed from the moving train by a TTE following an altercation. As a result of falling off the moving train, the railroad worker had one leg amputated and the other crushed. This incident happened on Thursday. The injured soldier is undergoing treatment at the Military Hospital in Bareilly.
Following the incident, the army officers and jawans reached Bareilly Junction and created a ruckus. Enraged over the incident, army personnel thrashed the other TTEs at the station. After this, GRP, RPF, and civil police reached the spot and brought the situation under control.
During this, the train stood at the railway station for about an hour.
“Army Jawan Sonu Kumar Singh (30), a resident of Bharsota village of Haldi police station, Ballia, is a rifleman in the army and is posted in Jaipur. He had boarded AC-3 coach B-6 of the Dibrugarh-Rajdhani Express and was travelling from Lucknow to Delhi. When the train reached Bareilly Junction at 9.12 a.m. on Thursday morning, Sonu got down to get water. The train started moving after three minutes. According to eyewitnesses, while boarding the coach, Sonu had an altercation with TTE. It is alleged that TTE pushed the worker, and he fell on the railroad track. One of his legs was amputated, while the other was badly crushed,” said Ajit Kumar Singh, Inspector GRP.
