For close to one-and-a-half-hour, my mother bled on the railway tracks. I called on the helpline of police, the ambulance and the railway. However, no one turned up,” said Gaurav Bansal, 18-year-old son of Sudhir Bansal who fell from a moving train while fighting off a snatcher who tried to take away her hand bag. Ironically, the incident happened 500 metres away from the Old Delhi Railway station and it took police more than 90 minutes to reach spot where the 43-year-old woman had fallen from the moving Yoga Express train.
Natives of Bhiwadi district in Haryana, the Bansal family has been living in the Jhunjunu district of Rajasthan for the past eight years.
Sudhir Bansal was coming to Delhi with her son Gaurav Bansal in the Yoga Express train to help him in assisting with hostel accommodation. Gaurav had secured admission in the Bsc course in Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences- a college of Delhi University.
Gaurav Bansal said, “My mother was really happy that I got admission in Delhi University. She was so elated that she decided to come with me to Delhi. At around 5 in the morning, while we both were standing near the gate of the train, someone tried to pull the handle of my mother’s bag. As it was dark, I did not see the face. However, suddenly, my mother slipped and fell down from the train. The train had slowed down after crossing the Delhi Cantt railway station and 500 metres before the Old Delhi Railway station, my mother fell down and kept on bleeding.
She was lying on the tracks. I saw her right leg and hand severed. I dialed on police number and ambulance number so many times.
More than an hour passed. It was then that police arrived and took my mother to the hospital but she died on the way,” added Gaurav.
“Had police and railway taken quick action, my wife would have been alive,” said Satyawan Bansal, husband of the deceased.
The family claimed that the mother-son duo had boarded a train from Chidawa, a place in Jhunjhunu district and from Chidawa, they reached Rewari from where they finally boarded the Yoga Express train.
A night before the unfortunate incident, the Bansal family ate their last meal together unaware of the mishap which lay ahead.
Sudhir Bansal is survived by her husband, Satyawaan Bansal, her daughter Komal Bansal (20), who is studying in a college in Rajasthan and Gaurav. Satyawaan works in a Government bank.
Post-mortem of the deceased was conducted on Saturday after which the family returned to their native place to perform the last rites. Meanwhile, police said that investigation is on and a case has been registered at the Old Delhi Railway police station against the accused.