New Delhi: A 40-year-old woman suffered head injuries Tuesday after her sari got stuck in a carriage door of a Delhi Metro train as it was about to leave a station, due to which she got dragged on the platform, her husband Jagdish Prasad said. The victim, Gita, was travelling with her daughter when the incident took place at the Moti Nagar metro station on the Blue Line. She has been rushed to a nearby hospital where she is undergoing treatment.
“Gita and my daughter were travelling from Nawada. They got off at the Moti Nagar station when the ‘pallu’ of Gita’s sari got stuck as the door closed. As a result, she got dragged for some distance on the platform,” Prasad stated.
“I got a call from my daughter who told me about the incident. Apparently, one of the commuters had pressed the emergency button to alert the driver for stopping the train,” added Prasad. The family are residents of the Shashtri Nagar area near Inderlok.
Confirming the incident, a senior Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) official confirmed said the incident was reported at Moti Nagar station (Line-3) at 9:19am where a woman passsenger’s sari got stuck in the train doors while de-boarding from the metro train going towards Vaishali. “The train operator immediately applied the emergency brakes and stopped the train.”
In a tweet, the DMRC informed that the services were briefly affected between the Moti Nagar and Rajendra Place stations.
The Blue Line of Delhi Metro connects Dwarka in Delhi to Noida Electronic City.
