A three-year-old girl survived miraculously after her mother, along with her brother and her, jumped in front of an approaching train at Jalpa station on Saturday.

Members of the Palamau district legal services authority helped rescue Kirti Kumari, who has had to have a portion of her foot amputated. Legal aid officials are now overseeing her treatment at the Medinirai Medical College Hospital in Daltonganj.

According to Hussainabad sub-divisional police officer Jitendra Kumar, Kirti’s mother, Geeta Devi, took her and her brother to platform number 3 of the Japla railway station, under Mughalsarai station, and jumped with both of them before a goods train that was headed towards Sone Nagar.

He said the chairman of the district legal services authority, Pradip K Choubey, who is the principal district and sessions judge of Daltonganj, deputed Sanjiv Kumar, along with paralegal volunteer Bhagirath Dubey, to visit Kirti at the children’s ward of the hospital on Sunday.

The legal aid functionary said, “On visiting the girl child at the hospital we found that she needed better treatment and immediately asked Palamau civil surgeon John F Kennedy and deputy medical superintendent K.N. Singh to look into it.”

A two-member team from child welfare committee (CWC), comprising Dhirender Kumar and Pranav Kumar Verenyam, also reached the hospital to ensure Kirti received good medical care.

Kirti’s grandfather Bandhu Yadav is understood to have petitioned CWC to say that he was too poor to be able to provide for her treatment. He urged the CWC to help them organise her continued medical treatment.

Legal services authority chairman Choubey said, “We understand that GRP will investigate this case thoroughly as it occurred on railway tracks. Legal services is open to assisting this child. We will monitor this case too,” he added.

Palamau civil surgeon Kennedy said Kirti had already given a unit of blood. “The blood bank has been directed to ensure transfusion facilities were available 24x7. We have to ensure the child does not contract any infection,” he said.

Deputy medical superintendent Singh said he had directed physician R. K. Ranjan, surgeon Sushil Pandey and attending doctor Sanjay Singh to keep a round-the-clock vigil on the girl.

Singh said, “The child is stable. Her bleeding has stopped. Nurses and other paramedics have been asked to see that she faces minimal discomfort. The attending doctors have been advised to arrange medicines on their own as the child comes from a very poor family.”