Looters chopped off a finger of a sanyasi in a moving local train to take way his gold ring near Deula on Sealdah-Diamond Harbour section at midnight last night.
GRP sources quoting the complaint lodged by the sanyasi, Somnath Baba who hails from Haryana, said a group of six looters had got into the train at Deula at about midnight last night and snatched away Rs 1100 from him and a sanyasini, Swarnamoyi Devi who was accompanying him.
The looters then demanded the gold ring on his right ring finger and as he was trying to take it off, they chopped off his finger and fled at Natra station, which is ahead of Diamond Harbour station.
The sanyasi said the GRP personnel initially refused to
record his complaint when his co-passengers took him to them at Diamond Harbour.
The co-passengers then took him to nearby Bharat Sevasram Sangha branch, where sadhus after treating his wound took him back to GRP and lodged the complaint, he said.
The sanyasi is under treatment at the sub-divisional hospital here.
The two sanyasis were enroute to north India but had boarded the wrong train at Sealdah station, the GRP said.
