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Former bureaucrat died

By AT News |

 In a most shocking incident, a former bureaucrat died after he slipped from a moving train in West Bengal on Saturday.

The incident took place near Shamuktala station in the neighbouring state where retired Water Resources Department secretary Dilip Kumar Chetia was killed after he fell from the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express.

According to eyewitness, Chetia fell from the train as he was standing at the door of the moving train.

His son Hrisiraj Chetia identified the body on Sunday at the Alipurduar District Hospital where the body was taken for post mortem.

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