Migrant worker's body found in Shramik train's toilet in UP

Amid the migrant crisis, the body of a 38-year-old migrant worker was found in the toilet of a Shramik Special train at Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi Railway Station on Wednesday.

Lucknow:In a shocking incident, the body of a migrant worker was found in the toilet of a 'shramik special' train at Jhansi railway station in Uttar Pradesh after four days.

According to sources, the body of Mohan Lal Sharma, a resident of the state's Basti district, was found on May 27 by the railway staff who were conducting their routine sanitisation of the train after its round trip from Gorakhpur in eastern UP.

The Jhansi-Gorakhpur train left on May 23 and reached Gorakhpur on May 24, then, as per protocol, its rake was sent back to Jhansi for maintenance and sanitisation on May 27, the officials said.

According to his family members, Sharma worked at a factory in Mumbai.

Along with his Aadhaar card, a May 23 train ticket to Gorakhpur, some documents and cash were recovered, officials in Jhansi said.

“The first opportunity for maintenance and sanitisation for the railways was when the rake reached Jhansi on May 27, when the staff recovered the body,” North Central Railway spokesperson Ajit Kumar Singh told a news agency.

Officials said that the movement of the train has been traced and at no point did any railway authority receive any call for medical help from anyone on the train.

The body has been sent for post-mortem by the GRP and the health department has taken samples for COVID-19 testing.

The body was found in the toilet of a coach of ‘Shramik Special’ train number ‘04186’.