Man who threw daughters from train arrested

LUCKNOW: After being on the run for about three months, the man who allegedly threw his four daughters from a moving train in Sitapur area was arrested from Bihar’s Motihari district on Monday night.

Iddu Ansari alias Iddu Mian, 42, was arrested for his ghastly act of throwing his four minors daughters, aged between four and 12 years, from the moving Kamakhya-katra Express in Sitapur area, while travelling from Bettiah in Bihar to Jammu on the intervening night of October 23 and 24.

Iddu was arrested by a UP Government Railway Police (GRP) team from near his house in Saraiya village of Motihari district and brought to Lucknow on Tuesday for interrogation. He stated before police that he threw the girls under the influence of liquor. However, police officials said he committed the crime for “other reasons”.

Inspector general (IG) of police, GRP Lucknow, Binod Kumar Singh said the accused is illiterate as well as a severe alcoholic but his interrogation suggested he wanted to get rid of all his daughters.

Singh added that the accused used to take care of his two sons from his first wife. Iddu’s elder son, Raees, stayed with him in Jammu where he worked as a construction labourer. He, however, never spent money on his daughters and they stayed with their mother at their maternal grandmother’s house in Jharka village of Bettiah district.

Iddu told police that he boarded the train from Bettiah along with his second wife Afreena Khatoon and their five daughters — Rabina, 12, Albun, 9, Muniya, 7, Shamina, 4, and Shahzadi, 2, to go to Jammu on October 22. He said he purchased two bottles of liquor when the train halted at Gorakhpur station and consumed it inside the train toilet as his wife and daughters slept. “I threw my four daughters — Rabina, Albun, Muniya, and Shamina — under the influence of alcohol while the train was passing through Sitapur,” he told police.

Three girls survived after many days of treatment but

Muniya was found dead on the rail tracks. Iddu could not throw his youngest daughter as she was sleeping in her mother’s lap.

Iddu’s wife repeatedly asked him about the missing kids throughout the journey but he informed her about his horrendous act only after reaching Jammu.

Afreena left Iddu after coming to know about his act and returned to her mother’s place in Bettiah. She later informed police and her family members about her husband’s crime and since then the police were hunting for him.