Woman falls off train while fighting thieves

Had to look forward to two days for an important surgical treatment as relations couldn’t prepare money.

A 32-year-old lady was injured when she fell off a operating educate whilst looking to prevent a thief from snatching her handbag. The incident happened in the early hours of Monday when the educate was approaching Vasai railway station. The man who took away Seema Dohre’s bag remains to be untraced. The lady had to look forward to two days for the vital surgical treatment as her family was now not in a position to organize money for it.

Seema, a resident of Lonavala, was accompanying her 12-year-old daughter and 10-year- previous son to Gwalior to attend a wedding in the family when the incident happened aboard the Pune-Gwalior Express. They had boarded the educate from Lonavala and had been travelling in S-6 trainer.

“She was napping on berth quantity 7, which is located subsequent to the door. Around four.30 am, Seema realised that someone had snatched the handbag of her daughter, who was napping on berth quantity 6, and fled. Before Seema may just chase the thief, his associate pulled her handbag too. Seema attempted to take her handbag back, but lost her stability all the way through the disagreement and fell off the educate,” Seema’s husband Santosh Dohre told Mirror. Dohre works as a labourer in Lonavala.

Dohre mentioned his spouse told him that she had noticed the duo get into the educate but sooner than she may just realise the rest, they pounced on them.

He mentioned the handbags had valuables, together with cash and cell phones, estimated to be round Rs 24,000. After Seema fell off, her daughters started crying. The co-passengers woke up and one in every of them pulled to the chain to forestall the educate. The educate guard was knowledgeable about the incident. The guard with the help of the passengers took the injured Seema in his cabin and handed them over to the station grasp of Boisar station. In the intervening time, Seema’s daughters called up their father from a co-passenger’s telephone who reached Boisar via the next educate. He was knowledgeable via the station grasp that his spouse have been admitted to civil health facility in Boisar.

According to Dohre, when he reached the health facility he found that his spouse was now not given right kind medical support. They had just bandaged her fractured leg and injuries on the head. When Dohre complained to the doctors about it, they told him that they didn't have adequate amenities, and asked him to take his spouse to another health facility. As the Boisar civil health facility didn't have an ambulance, he organized a taxi on his own to take his spouse to a private health facility in Lonavala.

Seema, who want rapid surgical treatment in her fractured left knee, was operated upon most effective on Wednesday evening after her husband borrowed money from family and friends for the bills.

When Mirror asked Dohre if the Western Railway helped him, he mentioned an officer had visited them in the Boisar health facility to check in their remark, and told them to say the bills from the railways.

According to Dohre, when he told the officer that he being a labourer didn't have money for his spouse’s remedy, he was told ‘it’s your problem’.

The Vasai GRP has registered a case underneath Sections 394, 392 and 34 of IPC and Section 150 of Indian Railway Act (endangering passenger safety).

When contacted MM Makandar, DCP, GRP, mentioned that they have got gained leads about the accused, and they might quickly be arrested.

Seema Dohre at a private health facility in Lonavala