After a number of movies surfaced on social media exhibiting individuals pelting stones or breaking the home windows whereas making an attempt to get inside Kumbh-special trains, the Railway Safety Drive (RPF) has registered no less than 4 FIRs in separate incidents in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh beneath the related sections of the Railways Act, the Indian Categorical has learnt. The RPF can be cognizant of no less than two extra incidents – in a single, the passengers had been let go after counselling, and in one other, particulars are nonetheless being verified.
Officers stated the accused are being recognized with the assistance of CCTV footage from railway stations.
In keeping with officers, three incidents of passengers breaking prepare home windows have come to mild from Ekma, Madhubani and Danapur railway stations in Bihar. Officers added that one incident pertains to passengers contained in the prepare being overwhelmed by these outdoors utilizing a picket pole; one is of passengers getting into the engine hooked up to the prepare; and one in every of stone pelting on a Vande Bharat Prepare at Subedarganj railway station in Prayagraj.
Officers stated that an FIR beneath part 153 (endangering the security of individuals travelling by railway) of the Railways Act has been registered at RPF Publish, Chhapra Junction, in reference to the incident at Ekma station, the place some unidentified individuals pelted stones at Lichchavi Categorical on Wednesday.
Equally, on February 10, when the Jaynagar-New Delhi Swatantrata Senani Categorical arrived at platform quantity 2 of Madhubani station, the home windows and doorways had been closed from the within. An enormous crowd of passengers at Madhubani station, who had been unable to board the prepare, turned agitated and broke many window glass, for which an FIR has been filed.
“An incident has been reported on social media relating to Danapur. Particulars are being verified. Motion might be initiated accordingly,” stated an official of the Ministry of Railways.
There have additionally been alleged incidents of passengers beating different passengers in an try to seek out house inside a prepare en path to Mahakumbh in Prayagraj.
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“On February 12, because of overcrowding of passengers at Katihar station making an attempt to board prepare No. 12487 to go to Prayagraj for Kumbh Snan, among the passengers resorted to making a nuisance and disrupted the boarding of co-passengers within the prepare. Based mostly on the video obtained by way of X, a case has been registered at RPF Publish Katihar in opposition to the unknown individuals,” stated the official quoted above.
An identical incident on one other Kumbh Mela Particular prepare befell on February 9 whereby, because of doorways being locked from the within, some devotees climbed into the non-working (watcher) engine hooked up to the rear of the prepare in the midst of the evening. Officers stated that no FIR was registered on this matter, and the passengers had been safely introduced down and counselled.
An incident of stone pelting on a Vande Bharat prepare has additionally come to mild, the place the glass of coach quantity C5 of the prepare was damaged. “A passenger named Pranav knowledgeable us about this incident, which befell Thursday morning. An FIR has been registered in opposition to unknown individual at RPF Publish, Subedarganj. In all incidents, primarily based on evaluation of CCTV footage, the accused are being traced for additional motion,” stated a ministry official.
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