Doubts on How Arunima Sinha Lost Her Leg
posted on Apr 26, 2011 @ 4:26PM
The Government Railway Police is having its own doubts on how Arunima Sinha lost her leg. The GRP team that is probing the athlete's case has found loopholes in the version given by Arunima Sinha that she lost her leg after being thrown out of a train by robbers in Bareilly. ADG, Railways AK Jain said, "The investigations point out that Arunima was disturbed and she either attempted suicide or met with an accident. We will unravel it in the next few days. The 'robbery' attempt as alleged by her was not corroborated in the investigation by any of the witnesses on or off the record."
During investigation, it was found that no physical test for ITBP was scheduled for April 11 in Noida, where Arunima said she was heading. Also, she was found at a spot, which was 16 feet away from the up track on which Padmavat express passed and she was lying on the far side of the adjacent down track, the investigators said, adding that it was impossible to land so far, if pushed out of the train. Arunima's version that the speed of the train was very fast was also found to be "untrue" as after halting for 12 minutes at Chanaiti Railway Station in Bareilly, Padmavat Express moved 250 meters (the spot, where she was found), where the speed cannot be more than eight km/hour, according to the investigators.
According to her mobile records, before coming to the station she made a call to her friend Sanjay in New Delhi from Kursi road. Sanjay had told police that Arunima was disturbed and suddenly made a plan to visit Delhi. Reacting to what the police says, Arunima said over phone from New Delhi that she was being 'mentally harassed'. "I don't know whether the police is with me or against me. I was going to CISF, Noida office to inquire about the Centre for physical exam scheduled on May 7 and to ensure a correction in my date of birth in the call letter I have received," Arunima said.