The driver of the DMU train Arvind Kumar has NOT committed suicide said Police commissioner Amritsar S. Srivastava. The following is the statement he gave to the railway authorities, not a suicide note: pic.twitter.com/lbi3scfB2p � Chitleen K Sethi (@ChitleenKSethi) October 22, 2018
Speaking to BOOM, Rashpal Singh, assistant sub-inspector, Bohru police station said that the deceased Singh had been depressed for a long time. "He was an electrician by profession but for the last four years he was unemployed. He had also been receiving treatment for seizures he would get owing to a mental illness," Singh said. He added that the deceased had tried to commit suicide several times over the last two years but had been rescued by family and friends. "On the day of the incident, Singh left home on his bike to Bohru and stopped near a barrage and then killed himself." He further explained that the family members of the deceased were being harassed after videos and photos of their son went viral with a message that he was the driver of the train in the recent Amitsar tragedy. "The family has called us seeking help after people started sending them threat messages and calls. We would like to request social media users to not spread such rumours. The deceased in the video is not the train driver of the Amritsar train tragedy but a local man from Bohru who was unemployed for many years."
The letter shared along with the images is the statement of Arvind Kumar, the loco-pilot. Kumar said that he blew the horn and applied the emergency brakes but did not stop as people were pelting stones at the train. Saw a crowd of ppl around track. Immediately applied emergency brakes while continuously blowing horn. Still some ppl came under it.Train was about to stop when people started pelting stones & so I started the train for passengers' safety: DMU train's driver.#AmritsarTrainAccident pic.twitter.com/2dihtcO9Ri
� ANI (@ANI) October 21, 2018
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