Sunday, August 23, 2009

Irate students torch four AC coaches of Shramjeevi Express train



A group of irate students on August 18 set four air-conditioned bogies of the New Delhi-Rajgir Shramjeevi Express afire at the Bihta Railway station under Patna-Buxar section of the East Central Railway. The leaping flame also caught two sleeper coaches of the Patna-Yeshwantpur (Bangalore), Sanghamitra Express which arrived at the same time in the next platform.
Students resorted to violence after Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel beat some of them up in the train during a ticket checking drive. A group, students, had boarded the train at Ara station. They were spotted by RPF personnel and forced out of the coaches at Bihta station resulting into a violence clash between police and students. Train services in the Patna-Mugalsarai section of EC Railway remained paralysed for more than four hours.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

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