UP Vegetable Vendor Hit By Train During Eviction Drive, Loses Legs
NDTV
According to eyewitnesses, Arsalan hurried to retrieve the scales from the tracks and was hit by an oncoming train and his legs were severed.
An 18-year-old vegetable seller on Friday lost his legs after he was run over by a train while trying to retrieve his weighing scale that was allegedly thrown on the tracks by a policeman in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur town
The police were reportedly clearing encroachments, mostly occupied by vegetable sellers, near a railway station in Kanpur.
Eyewitnesses said Arsalan, a resident of Sahib Nagar in Kanpur's Kalyanpur area, was selling vegetables on the side of GT road when two policemen approached him. According to eyewitnesses, the two beat Arsalan after which head constable Rakesh threw his weighing scale on the tracks
