Tejas Exp rolls into Egmore stn with severed leg

Tejas Exp rolls into Egmore stn with severed leg

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: 08.12.2020

A leg, severed from the thigh of a man’s body, was recovered from the undercarriage of a compartment of a Tejas Express train which arrived at Egmore railway station on Monday morning.

The government railway police from the station sent the leg to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital for an autopsy. The GRP officials sent a message to all railway police stations seeking information about any death on the railway tracks in the state.

Preliminary inquiries revealed that a man, aged about 40, was found dead near the Dindigul railway station and a GRP team recovered the body. Police informed the Chennai GRP team that one leg was missing from the body.

The Tejas express train started from Madurai on Sunday night and it dragged the leg from Dindigul to Chennai Egmore for about 431km, said police.

The police team has taken samples from the leg which has been preserved. Doctors will check if it was severed from the body recovered from Dindigul.

The government railway police have registered a case.