West Bengal: Youth jumps off train ‘to avoid TTE’, dies

KOLKATA: A 35-year-old man was found dead on the railway tracks between Taldi and Canning stations on Saturday. GRP sources said Gobindo Mondal may have been travelling without a ticket and jumped out of a local train on hearing that a ticket checker was on the round. GRP recovered a cellphone next to the body and identified the resident of Sonarpur’s Arapanch with its help.
A Canning GRP officer said, “We have spoken to the victim’s father Rabindranath. Though there is suspicion that he jumped off on hearing about a ticket checking drive, we are investigating to ascertain the truth.”