Policemen from the GRP and a Bareilly station quarrelled over jurisdiction over the removal of the body of a dead man lying on the tracks on Thursday, even as the body was run over by 16 more trains.
Policemen from the GRP and a Bareilly station quarrelled over jurisdiction over the removal of the body of a dead man lying on the tracks on Thursday, even as the body was run over by 16 more trains.
According to a report in a prominent newspaper, senior railway officials stepped in six hours after the man died, even as the GRP and Bareilly police continued to argue.
However, by then the man's body had been mutilated beyond recognition.
The unidentified man was first run over by the Akal Takht Express from Howrah to Amritsar. The accident took place at the Shamshan Bhoomi crossing under Quila police station around 6:18 am on Thursday.
The man died instantly, but the locals informed the Quila police station, according to the prominent daily. The train's driver alerted the control room at Bareilly railway station.
The Bareilly station master immediately brought the matter to the notice of GRP officials at Bareilly railway station. But GRP staff asked police at Quila police station to take the body into their custody and send it for postmortem.
Following this, there was a bitter war of words between the GRP and local police, with neither side ready to take the body. They continued fighting for more than six hours. Meanwhile, more than 16 speeding trains ran over the corpse, including the Saryu Yamuna Express, Poorbiya Express, PBR Express, Gharib Nawaz Express, Awadh-Assam express and the Gharib Rath.
It was only after senior railway officials stepped in that the body was taken into custody by Quila police at around 12 noon and sent for postmortem, says the report.
"After the GRP refused to take the body into custody, we have sent it for postmortem. The corpse of the man, in his early 20's, will be kept at the mortuary for 72 hours and if no one turns up to claim it, we will conduct the last rites at government expense. As of now, his identity has not been established," said Quila police station inspector Qamrul Hasan, talking to the prominent daily.
Inspector, GRP Bareilly, Chandrashekhar Gupta however continued to argue his point even after the terrible incident. "We were informed about the incident by the station master, but the accident spot comes under the jurisdiction of Quila police station and it is their duty to collect the body and send it for postmortem."
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