Railway gateman refuses to open level crossing gate, gets hands hacked off

Delhi | Monday | 17th September, 2018

Summary:

Senior railway officials and railway doctors are present at the hospital. He has now been shifted to Saroj Hospital, Rohini, where he is currently undergoing major surgery. more-inGateman Kundan Pathak’s refusal to open a level crossing gate in north Delhi’s Narela area because a train was approaching could cost him both his hands as bike-borne assailants hacked at him till he collapsed, railway officials said on Monday. Pathak was manning gate number 19 between Narela and Rathdhana Sunday night when three men on a bike demanded that the level crossing gate be opened. Pathak, 28, whose hands were severed in the assault late Sunday, has been admitted to a hospital in Rohini, the officials said..