In a shocking incident, a railway trackman was killed and another injured after they were hit with an iron rod by a mentally retarded person at the Bhubaneswar Railway station on Wednesday morning.
Trackman Malay Ketan Pradhan (34), a resident of Bantala village in Angul district succumbed to injuries while being taken to a hospital, while colleague Ramananda Pandit (42), who sustained injuries, was undergoing treatment in a private hospital here.
The accused has been arrested and identified as Mun Barua (35) son of Thanuram Barua, a resident of Narayanpur village under Mianpani police station in Golaghat district of Assam.
According to Railway SP KS Kanhar, Barua suspected to be a mentally retarded person from Assam, first hit Pradhan with a manual signal iron rod on his head from backside while he, along with the injured Pandit, was busy checking the track at the northern side of the platform number 1 early in the morning.
“While Pandit tried to oppose it, Barua too attacked him with the iron rod,” the SP said.
Sources said, hearing the screaming of the injured, the RPF personnel rushed to the spot and managed to nab Barua. later they handed him over to the Government Railway Police (GRP).
He was booked under Sections 302,325,326 and 307 of IPC.