Woman pulled off train for resisting robber; gets run over

By Ramya Patelkhana

Sep 04, 2017

06:40 pm

What's the story

Sudhir Bansal, a 43-year-old woman, fell off a moving train and died as she tried to resist a robber from snatching her handbag at the door. Her hands and a leg were severed as the train ran over her. The incident took place near Old Delhi Railway Station; Bansal was accompanying her son Gaurav for admission formalities at Delhi's Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences.

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What exactly happened?

"Someone along the tracks below pulled my mother's handbag. When my mother resisted, she was pulled off the train," Gaurav said. Police has registered a case of robbery and culpable homicide. Other than her son, Gaurav, she is survived by her husband and a daughter.