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Patna, (Bihar Times): Eighty passengers of the general
compartment of the 2141 Kurla-Patna (Rajendranagar)
Express were robbed of their belongings by armed
criminals between Kalyan and Kasera railway stations
in Maharashtra on the wee hours of Sunday.
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The robbers, numbering over a dozen, boarded the train
in Kurla and started looting the passengers at the
gun-point just after the train left Kalyan. They later
pulled the chain to get down at an isolated place
before Kasera. Belongings worth Rs five lakhs were
looted by them. This include wrist-watches, mobiles,
gold rings, luggage and other ornaments.
They lodged a case at the Patna railway station on
Monday morning after the train reached its final
destination as they alleged that their complaints were
not properly entertained in any of the station in
Maharashtra.
However, the Maharashtra Railway Police Commissioner,
A K Sharma, told a section of Press that the police
had registered a case of dacoity in Kalyan on Sunday
morning. The criminals also misbehaved with the
passengers, especially women.
At Patna railway station the traumatized passengers
urged the railway minister Lalu Yadav to intervene and
provide proper protection to the passengers.
The robbers seemed to have fully capitalized on the
anti-Bihari sentiment in Maharashtra. What dismayed
the passengers was the indifferent attitude of the
police in that state.
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