Kanpur: A street vegetable vendor lost both his legs on Friday evening after he was hit by a train while allegedly trying to pick his belongings, from a railway track, thrown away by police, in Kanpur’s Kalyanpur area. The police were reportedly clearing the spaces illegally occupied by roadside vendors there.
Additional DCP West Lakhan Yadav said, “Irfan, alias Laddoo, was selling vegetables close to the railway track. His scale fell on the tracks as he hurried to vacate when the police came. He has been hospitalised and his treatment is going on.”
According to locals, the Indira Nagar police station in-charge, Shadab Khan, and head constable Rakesh chased the street vendors on GT Road.
