Police are lying, says assaulted sportswoman
April 27th, 2011 - 6:24 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, April 27 (IANS) A volleyball player Wednesday accused the Railway Police of lying after they doubted her claim that she lost her leg after being thrown out of a running train by criminals.
Arunima Sinha, who lost one of her legs in the tragic incident, told the CNN-IBN channel: “How can the police claim there was no scuffle when there wasn’t any police officer in the compartment? Police doesn’t know the truth and (are) lying.”
Additional Director General of Railway Police A.K. Jain Tuesday said that investigation had revealed that Arunima’s story had many holes.
“We have reason to suspect that she suffered the injuries either in an attempt to commit suicide or she met with an accident, but chose to blame it on crime in the railways,” he said.
Arunima denied saying she was going for an Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) entrance examination when the incident took place.
“I did not fill any application form of ITBP. I had filled a Staff Selection Commission (SSC) examination form for other paramilitary forces. I was coming to Delhi to get my date of birth corrected in a form,” she said.
A resident of Ambedkar Nagar, Arunima said she was pushed out of the general compartment of Padmawati Express while resisting a chain-snatching attempt April 12.
Her left leg came under the wheels of another train passing on the parallel track.
The Railway Police took her to a district hospital where she lay injured, traumatised for two days before she could narrate the whole incident. She is now being treated at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here.
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