Despite three men getting mowed down by a passenger train on the railway tracks between Dhandari and Ludhiana stations near Dholewal Chowk on Sunday evening, residents in the nearby area continue to be spotted illegally crossing the tracks in a shocking absence of fear of any punitive action from the authorities.
Notably, the accident took place at railway km number 370, which is part of the most vulnerable railway stretch in the state as per a report submitted by former Government Railway Police (GRP) deputy superintendent of police (Ludhiana) Pardeep Singh Sandhu
The officer, in his state-level report, had declared the railway stretch from km number 369 to 374 — located between block hut Dholewal and Dhandari — as an accidental prone zone.
