n In a heart rending tragedy a young mother with her two children aged 5 and 3 jumped before a 58 wagon coal laden goods train when it was passing through platform number 3 of Japla railway station under Moghulsarai railway division on Saturday, the day of Diwali, leading to the instantaneous death of mother and one child while the other child aged 3 lost his left leg a few fingers of his right leg said police sources.
Sources said the tragedy struck a Yadav family of Neel Kothi Baniya Deeh under Hussainabad sub division.
Sources said turbulent domestic matter could have sparked this tragedy as the surviving child has good clothing on his body suggesting this family must be getting ready for the Diwali festival in the evening of Saturday but before that came this death of the two under the wheels of the train.
The highly injured child was first treated in the sub divisional hospital Hussainabad from where she was referred to Medinirari Medical College Hospital here in Daltonganj.
Civil surgeon Palamu Dr John F Kennedy said, “The child is under our constant watch and all possible medical help available here will be given to this innocent child.”
Kennedy said one unit of blood was transfused to her. He described the condition of the injured and under treatment child as stable.
SDPO Hussainabad Jitendra Kumar said the tragedy is enormous and society must come forward to help stop such life losing activity.
SDPO Jitendra Kumar said the exact cause of provocation to this woman who jumped before a goods train with her children will be found out.
This case is of government railway police head quartered at Daltonganj.
This correspondent spoke to chairman of the district legal services authority P K Choubey the principal district and sessions judge (PDJ) here who said “The GRP I believe must have registered the case and investigation must be on by it.”
As regards district legal services authority taking any note of this great human tragedy PDJ Choubey said “Our para legal volunteer is there and this PLV may visit the family but the best lawful course is the investigation of the police which it has to do by all means and that police investigation is inevitable and mandatory.”
Sources said in normal times DLSA used to hold legal awareness campaigns on various issues including domestic dispute/ marital discord and this case born out of violent domestic discord deserves all intervention by DLSA within its legal framework.
Station superintendent of Daltonganj railway station Anil Kumar Tiwary said “This diwali night around 10 we got an information of a drunkard lying almost on the railway track near the railway crossing gate at Abadganj kachehry which our track patrol team had discovered following which local police were tipped off this situation and this man’s life was saved.”
Tiwary said desperate people losing all sense of value of life just throw themselves before the wheels of the trains only to sink their families in endless sorrow and miseries.