27-year-old man run over by train at Sahnewal crossing

Ludhiana: A 27-year-old man was run over by a Delhi-bound superfast train during the early morning hours at Sahnewal railway crossing on Monday near here.
The police could not identify the deceased as the body was badly crushed and cut into pieces after it was hit by the train near here within the city limits. Balbir Singh, in charge of Government Railway Police (GRP), said, a line-man had informed the control room of the Government Railway Police in the early morning hours of Monday, following which a police party under my guidance reached the spot for initiating further proceedings. The deceased seems to be in his twenties and might be a factory workers from a nearby area.”
“In the preliminary investigation, the police came to know that the deceased was trying to take a short cut to reach his home early by crossing the railway tracks from an unmanned crossing and got crushed under the train coming from the opposite direction. The police did not recover any documents from the possession of the deceased which could reveal his identity,” he said.
The railway police initially got the Covid-19 test of the body conducted for further confirmation as the matter related to safety of police officials, who mostly have to come in close touch with several unknown bodies while doing on the spot investigation to solve a case.
“Following this, the railway police sent the body to the mortuary of the civil hospital here to be kept there for the next 72 hours in connection with further investigations. The railway police initiated the inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC to ascertain the real reason for the mishap,” the in-charge told TOI.