The case of two men allegedly being pushed from getting onto a moving 3151 UP Sealdah-Jammu Tavi Express train by yet to be identified Armymen on Saturday turned curiouser with one of them fleeing from the hospital he was admitted in. His companion had died in the incident.The postmortem at the Magadh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) identified the deceased as one Dinesh Pandey (30). The injured man, brought in on Sunday in the morning was identified as Ramniwas Pandey. ‘‘We plastered his leg when his X-ray showed a fracture,’’ said MMCH’s Dr K.K. Sinha. At 2.30 am the same day, he was found missing and so the MMCH enlisted him as a patient who had left the ward ‘‘without medical advice’’.Earlier, Ramniwas had told a section of media that he had boarded the train at Gaya alongwith his uncle Dinesh. ‘‘We had to return home. Since we had no reservation we decided to board the running train. We kept banging on the door. Instead of opening the door, the Army personnel pushed us from inside. We lost control and fell in the river,’’ Ramniwas is said to have told a journalist of a local newspaper.His allegation was neither admitted nor denied by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Army Service Corp (North)’s office at the Gaya railway station. ‘‘We checked the military compartment at the station. But there was no civilian inside it,’’ said ASC’s Subedar N.K. Linda adding: ‘‘Our inquiry is still on.’’A few miles from Gaya lies the Pariya railway station. At the outer orbit of the station, there is a bridge over Pariya river. ‘‘A gangman had spotted the victims at night. But the RPF took them out of the dry river bed early in the morning,’’ said a senior Railway official on condition of anonymity. Gaya Station Manager B.D. Bhagat was not available for comment.But the General Railway Protection Force ASI K.N. Kandolia, who had brought the body from Pariya, said Ramniwas never made any allegations against the Army. ‘‘It is only through the local newspapers we learnt today that they were pushed by Armymen.’’
