Police said, the 45-year-old woman had boarded the 14055 UP Brahmaputra Mail on Saturday with her niece, her son-in-law and 10-year-old son in order to go to Delhi.
As there was a crowd inside the compartment, the woman suddenly alighted from the train at Kahalgaon near the Honda showroom. Others accompanying her in the train alighted at Bhagalpur station and informed the govt railway police.
According to Assistant SP Meenu Kumar, the woman strayed towards Makaspur, near Kahalgaon, where she was found hours later hanging from a mango tree in an orchard near Pahadia Tola.
SSP Bhagalpur Anupama Nilekar and DIG Amit Kumar Jain told mediapersons on Monday that the post mortem report of the body did not show any sign of sexual assault. "We are trying to ascertain how she died", said Jain.
According to ASP Meenu Kumari, the woman's shawl, sweater and other clothes were found near the scene of crime. Her purse was also found in which there was Rs 209 cash and a piece of paper on which a cellphone number was written.
The body was identified at Kahalgaon police station by the lady's son-in-law Debendra.
The body that was found hanging from the tree was nude, but the knees were touching the ground, police said.
The woman's family resides in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. The post mortem was conducted at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital in Bhagalpur.
The woman's relatives told the police that the victim had started feeling restless in the crowded compartment of the train after the train left Sahebganj. She wanted to get down from the compartment, but was somehow persuaded not to do so by them as well as co-passengers, they added.
“However, as the train slowed down near Kajipur, located between Kahalgaon and Vikramshila stations, she jumped out of the compartment,” the relatives informed the police, adding before they could do something, the train had gained speed.
ASP, Bhagalpur, Meenu Kumari said the woman was feeling restless. “As she went towards the toilet, her son-in-law followed her. When she jumped out of the train all on a sudden, the cousin tried to stop her, but couldn't. It is not clear why she took this step.”
She said the orchard where the body was found hanging from a tree is located at a distance of nearly 10 km from the place where the woman was said to have got down from the train. According to local sources, the victim's clothes were found strewn nearly 50 metres away from the tree.
The latest incident comes close on heels of the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student by six persons in a moving bus in south Delhi. She was brutally assaulted and thrown on the road without clothes. The victim died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.
