New Delhi: In yet another instance of high-handedness by Indian armymen, a group of army personnel and BSF jawans allegedly beat up some passengers, threw out their luggage and misbehaved with women travellers in the Guwahati-bound North East Express at Buxar in Bihar on Wednesday night.
According to Railway police sources, a group of armymen and BSF jawans travelling in the general coach of the train allegedly ordered the passengers, who had boarded the train at Mughal Sarai railway station late at night, to get down, claiming that the bogie was reserved. The armymen and BSF jawans were allegedly in an inebriated state.
According to Ajay Verma, DIG of Railway police (Bihar), the incident occurred when the passengers resisted them. As soon as the train left the station, the men in uniform beat up the passengers black and blue, threw out their luggages and even misbehaved with some women travellers.
PTI quoted Verma as claiming that the Railway Protection Security Force (RPSF) officials immediately sounded an alert and sent a message to the control at Buxar railway station about the incident.
As the train reached Buxar station, 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.
The incident comes close on the heels of similar acts of high-handedness and vandalism by the Army at Park Street police station in Kolkata when a group of armymen had beaten up some policemen there and freed some criminals from police lock-up.
In yet another incident, a group of Army jawans has brutally beaten up a Kashmir Muslim youth, Shafqat Maqdumi, onboard a train near Gwalior in the first week of this month.
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