Armymen among nine booked for thrashing passengers in train

PATNA: A group of army personnel, BSF jawans and some civilians allegedly beat up passengers, threw out their luggage and misbehaved with women travellers in the general compartment of Guwahati-bound North East express from New Delhi, Railway police sources said.

Nine persons, including four armymen and two BSF jawans were arrested by Railway police.

Confirming the incident, Ajay Verma, DIG of Railway police (Bihar), said on Thursday that a group of armymen and BSF jawans travelling in the general coach of the train allegedly in an inebriated state, ordered the passengers, who boarded the train at Mughalarsai railway station late on Wednesday night, to get down claiming that the bogie was reserved.

But the passengers soon understood that they were lying and resisted them, Verma said, adding when the train left the station, the men in uniform beat up the passengers, who defied them, black and blue till the train stopped at Dhina railway station.

The luggages of the passengers were thrown out while some women travellers were misbehaved with, he informed and said an alert Railway Protection Security Force (RPSF) official, sent a message to the control at Buxar railway station in Bihar about the incident.

As the train reached Buxar, the GRP men caught nine persons, four armymen, two BSF jawans and three civilians, who were identified by the agitated passengers and brought them to the GRP station there, the DIG said.