Plain reflex cost my husband his left arm

It all happened in a flash, said Dr Dipali Deshmukh, whose husband Dr Yogesh Deshmukh lost his left hand after they both fell off the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Nanded Special train in the early hours on Thursday.

- Megha Sood

MUMBAI: A robber tried to snatch Dipali's purse when the train was between Bhandup and Kanjurmarg, but since it was secured tightly around her hand, she got dragged till the door, her husband following her - the robber then jumped off the moving train, pulling the couple down behind him.

"There was only ₹5,000 in my purse, but I did not let go of it as everything transpired within seconds," the 44-year-old Dipali said, sitting beside her husband in Fortis Hospital, holding her tears as she watched him without his left arm. "It was a plain reflex which cost my husband his arm."