A 27-year-old married woman lost one leg and valuables worth Rs 80,000 after she was pushed out of the speeding Samta Express train while trying to save her purse from miscreant on April 6 near Itarsi railway station, incident surfaced after victim's husband reached here at Hamidia Hospital late in the night on Saturday.
Government Railway Police Itarsi tried to hide the matter of robbery incident in Samta Express on April 6 in which the victim Bhuwneshwari Singh a resident of Balod district in Chhattishgarh was pushed out of the speeding train after she tried to save her purse from miscreants.
Superintendent of Police (Railways) TK Vidhyarti said that three teams have been formed and search for the miscreants has been intensified. In the incident police have acted responsibly which could be checked with the victim and her husband as police reached the spot and rushed the victim for treatment. A case of robbery has been registered against unidentified miscreant.
The victim's condition is reportedly stable. Her left leg below knee has been amputated to save her life, he added.
She was rushed to Hoshangabad for treatment and later on April 7 after her condition deteriorated she was referred to Hamidia Hospital Bhopal where her leg was amputated to save her life. After the incident when her husband was informed he reached Hamidia Hospital late in the night on Saturday after which the matter surfaced.
The victim was pushed off the train after she caught one of the thieves while trying to escape with her purse and braved to save her purse from the miscreant but failed.
A CRPF personnel alerted victim's brother and later the victim was found missing due to that the train was stopped and search for the victim was conducted in which she was found in an injured state and rushed to Hoshangabad for treatment.
The victim was travelling with her two-year-old daughter Chanchal and brother S Kumar in Samta Express from Raipur to Nizamuddin. They were on berth number 71 and 72 in S-7 coach.
Similar incident occurred on the same date and same coach number with Delhi based Rati Tripathi three years ago in Sagar while she was travelling in Malwa Express train.