A 25-year-old woman died after being pushed out of a moving train here allegedly by a Railway Protection Force constable, police said today.
The incident occurred on Tuesday night at the Varanasi railway station when a RPF constable allegedly pushed Rita Pal and her brother Jaidev out of the moving train after they refused to pay him money, O P Singh, Circle Officer of GRP, Allahabad, said.
He said the constable also allegedly snatched Rs 3500 from them.
Pal, who was seriously injured, was rushed to the government hospital where she succumbed to her injuries on the same night while Jaidev suffered minor injuries, he said.
Pal, along with her 18-month-old daughter Kajal, Jai Dev and uncle Manik Pal, all hailing from Birbhum district in West Bengal, was travelling from Howrah to Kanpur by Durgiana Express to meet her husband.
According to the complaint lodged by Manik Pal, a man dressed in police uniform entered their compartment and started extorting money from them on the pretext of checking tickets.
They asked the constable that they had tickets of general compartment and were sitting in the sleeper compartment as their was no seat vacant in the general compartment, Manik Pal said in his complaint.
They told the constable that they had already paid Rs 50 to another constable who had checked their tickets before him, Singh said.
The accused RPF constable Sharad Chandra Dubey was arrested yesterday in this connection and a case under section 384 (extortion), 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery) and 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of IPC has been registered against him, the CO said.
