Woman, 5-Year-Old Son Allegedly Pushed Off Train In Bengal For Carrying Beef

West Bengal: A woman has claimed that she was thrown off a train on Tuesday evening because she was carrying a bag of beef in West Bengal, police said.

The 26-year-old woman said she was pushed by Railway Protection Force jawans, who first pushed her five-year-old son off the train as it was leaving the Sondalia station, about 70 km from Kolkata.

Monjila Bibi was travelling with two of her female relatives and a four-year-old girl. The girl and the bag of beef were left behind on the train.

Commuters at Sondalia station had blocked the railway tracks after the incident following which a huge police force rushed to the spot to control the situation.

The railways have denied the woman was pushed off the train.

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According to the senior divisional security Commissioner of Sealdah, Mr Ashish, the woman was in the ladies compartment of a local train going from Sealdah to Haroa. Co-passengers objected to the meat she was carrying. So two railway escorts in the compartment asked her to get off at Sondalia.

The Commissioner said the woman got off the train and started creating a ruckus about being pushed off.

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The woman said she was from a poor family and had come to Sondalia from her home in Haroa to collect beef donated on the occasion of Eid.

The police later escorted the woman and her child to her home at Haroa, 42 km from Kolkata.

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All railway stations on the route have been alerted about the 4-year-old girl who was left behind in the compartment.