Youth Dies After Hitting Pole While Leaning From Passenger Train

A 19-year-old youth died on Wednesday night after striking an electric pole while leaning out of a passenger train door near Jharakhande Baba temple on the Ghazipur City-Dildarnagar section, Suhwal police said.

Ashish Bind, a resident of Kalwari village under Khanpur police station, had boarded the passenger with his cousin Sameer Bind to visit Sayar Mata temple at Dildarnagar for darshan. When the train reached the stretch in front of Jharakhande Baba temple, Ashish was leaning from the gate, police said. He hit a trackside electric pole, fell, and died at the spot from the injuries.

Sameer got down at New Tarighat after the shock of the moment and returned to the scene, where he found Ashish dead and broke down, according to the station narrative. Station house officer Kamlesh Kumar said police took charge of the body and shifted it to the mortuary. After a written complaint by maternal uncle Virendra Bind, the body was sent for postmortem.

Local passenger trains on this short Ghazipur belt often run with open doors in general coaches, and trackside poles sit close on older alignments. Railway safety messages repeatedly warn against leaning out, yet the habit remains common on familiar routes. Wednesday's death fits that grim pattern: a temple trip, an open gate, a pole, and no time to react.

Police have treated the matter as an accidental death process for now, with the uncle's complaint starting the paperwork. Any finding on coach condition, door fastening or trackside clearance will depend on the postmortem and whatever railway inquiry follows. No other passenger injury was reported in the first police account.

Kalwari and the wider Khanpur circle received the news as another young life lost on a routine evening ride. Family rites will wait on the postmortem handover. For travellers on the Ghazipur City-Dildarnagar passenger, the verified caution from Suhwal's briefing is blunt: leaning from the gate on that pole-lined stretch can kill in a single impact.

Suhwal's stretch past Jharakhande Baba temple is familiar to daily passengers who hop between Ghazipur City, Tarighat and Dildarnagar. The poles that carry traction and wayside supply sit close enough that a body leaning past the door line has little margin. Railway circulars ban travel on footboards and hanging from gates; enforcement on short passenger rakes is uneven when coaches are crowded.

The cousin's return from New Tarighat underlines how fast the train moved on after the impact. By the time Sameer reached the spot on foot and by whatever local help he found, Ashish was already dead. That detail matters for the inquest timeline: discovery, police arrival, mortuary shift, and the uncle's written complaint that unlocked the postmortem order.

Temple visits by young men in pairs are routine on this belt, especially toward Sayar Mata at Dildarnagar. Wednesday's trip began like any other and ended as a station diary death. Neighbours in Kalwari will hold the mourning; investigators will stick to the mechanical facts of speed, door, pole and injury unless something else appears in the postmortem.

The public record as of Thursday morning is the identity of the deceased, the cousin travelling with him, the temple destination, the Jharakhande Baba location, the SHO's confirmation, and the mortuary and postmortem steps begun after Virendra Bind's complaint.