Over half a dozen youths in the age group of 20 to 22 on Tuesday morning committed robbery in a coach of the Ranchi-Varanasi Inter City Express train. The robbery in running train took place between Barwadih and Daltonganj railway stations.
A passenger Abdul Jabar was injured by the robbers when he resisted them and received a knife bruise on his cheek. Six looted passengers have lodged a joint FIR with the GRP Daltonganj.
Arvind K Sinha traffic inspector of the Daltonganj railway station has confirmed the robbery in this train.The robbers made good with `14,300 in cash while sparing the mobile phones with victims, probably fearing to be tracked by the police.
The robbers had got into the general coach of the train at Barwadih railway junction and started looting passengers immediately. Nearing Mangra railway station they got down by pulling the chain said Sinha.
This is the third robbery in the train in the last four weeks as sources informed. The GRP is out tracing the youths who have acted as robbers. Their faces were masked. They appeared to be the local ones. Four of them had country made pistols and one had a knife. No female passenger has been reportedly harassed.