Overview
- Rail officials in Jalpaiguri said a 24-year-old from Jharkhand, identified as Chandan Kumar Mandal, died after falling from the Brahmaputra Mail near Raninagar.
- Railway Protection Force and Government Railway Police said they found the man on the tracks and took him to Jalpaiguri Super Speciality Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
- The RPF inspector said the alarm chain was not pulled, rejecting a key claim in the widely shared clip that described a failed stop and unanswered calls for help.
- The viral video, posted by user Ramesh Tiwari, shows a woman in tears in a crowded coach and alleges the train kept moving for 10 to 15 kilometers after the fall.
- Police opened an Unnatural Death case and reported no family complaint so far, a turn that is likely to refocus scrutiny on how Indian trains handle alarm-chain pulls meant to trigger an emergency stop.