NEW DELHI, May 8 -- A 24-year-old man lost both his legs after was run-over by a train at the Subzi Mandi railway station, police said on Friday,adding that a preliminary investigation showed he had been first assaulted.

Police said the incident took place in the early hours of April 26 and a case had been registered in the matter. Police collected two statements from the victim, a resident of Mukundpur. In the first statement, he said he had been drinking with his friends the night before the incident and became heavily intoxicated, eventually losing consciousness, adding that he couldn't remember how he ended up at the tracks.

However, during a second statement recorded on May 5, the victim alleged that four of his friends had assault...