Woman pushed off train while resisting snatchers in Bengal's Purba Medinipur; two arrested
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Kolkata (PTI): A woman passenger was seriously injured after she was allegedly pushed off the Howrah–Puri Dhauli Express near Kolaghat in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district on Sunday while resisting a snatching attempt, a district police official said.
Two snatchers were later arrested by the villagers and handed over to the railway police.
Sarama Hazra was pushed from the moving train when she confronted the two snatchers who attempted to pull the gold chain from her neck, the official said, quoting her family members and local residents. As the train was moving slowly, the two snatchers also jumped off the train to escape.
Hazra fell by the side of the tracks and screamed for help. Local villagers rushed to the spot and rescued her, and also caught the two accused, who were then handed over to railway police after being thrashed, officials said.
The 45-year-old Kolkata's Behala resident was first taken to Kharagpur Railway Hospital and later shifted to a hospital in the metropolis as one of her hands had sustained severe injuries.
Her condition is stated to be stable but serious, with doctors considering surgery to prevent amputation, the relative added.
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Accept Congress decision appointing V D Satheesan as Kerala CM: K C Venugopal
Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi (PTI): Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal on Thursday accepted the party decision to select V D Satheesan as the chief minister of Kerala and congratulated him.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Venugopal, who was one of the three persons being considered for the post, said he will provide all support to the CM and the UDF government in Kerala.
The decision comes more than 10 days after the results of the April Assembly polls in Kerala were declared.
The Congress-led UDF secured a more than two-thirds majority in the Kerala Assembly elections, but the party has been unable to decide its chief ministerial face due to lobbying by different camps and protests by workers at the ground level.
Besides, Satheesan and Venugopal, senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala was also in the race for the CM post.
