Afreen, who turned up alive last Monday after Sitapur Police dumped her as `dead’, finally revealed the entire sequence of events behind the recovery of the body of a girl and three other injured near railway tracks on the morning of October 23. The sensational incident turned out to be yet another case of discrimination against the girl child.
After reaching Sitapur on Tuesday, Afreen met her three daughters, undergoing treatment at Sitapur district hospital. The children broke down after finding their mother alive after eight days.
later, Afreen disclosed that she along with her husband Iddu Ansari, who was an alcoholic, boarded Kamakhya Express from Jagdishpur railway station for Jammu on October 23. She said that the train was crowded so her four daughters and Iddu slept on one berth while she and her youngest daughter Shahzadi (18-months) perched themselves on another seat.
Afreen said that soon they were asleep and woke up only as the train neared Jammu railway station. As she readied to deboard, she found to her horror that her daughters – Anbul, Saleema, Rabia and Munni were missing from the train.
When she enquired from her husband, Iddu abused her and accused her of bearing her only daughters andd no son. He informed that since he could not feed the girls, he threw the four from train. He further warned that if she reacted to the bizarre acrt, then he would throw her from the train along with Shahzadi.
Fearing for her life, she remained silent. But as soon as they reached Jammu station, she somehow escaped with her daighter Shahzadio. later she begged some money, bought a ticket and reached parent’s house in Jakhra area of Naukan in Betia district (Bihar). She claimed that she was totally unaware about the of fate of the daughters and only learnt about them last Monday when cops reached her house and informed that three of her daughters were undergoing treatment.
On October 23, the body of a six-year-old girl and two injured sisters — four and seven years — were found in an unconscious state along railway tracks near Ramaipur railway gate of Maanpur area in Sitapur district.
GRP personnel in Sitapur maanaged to ascertain their identity as Anbul Khatoon (7) and Saleema Khatoon (4) from Motihari (Bihar) and they were admitted to Sitapur District Hospital. Anbul told the police that they were going with their father Iddu Ansari, mother and three sisters when her uncle pushed them from the train. The one found dead was identified as Munni.
later, the cops also recovered the body of a woman near the tracks whom they identified as Afreen and also cremated her. However, the matter took an interesting turn, when cops went to Motihari in search of Iddu and the victim’s uncle and learnt that Afreen was alive and staying in her parent’s house. Now the Sitapur police is trying to confirm the identity of the deceased woman. Efforts were also on to nab Iddu.