Two Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel were on Monday suspended in connection with the assault on a physically-challenged man at the Baleswar railway station recently.
Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu tweeted about the suspension of the RPF personnel.
“I had taken immediate cognisance of the case, had ordered enquiry. Subsequently, two RPF personnel responsible have been put under suspension,” Prabhu tweeted. Sources said the two suspended were H Chaudhary, an Assistant Sub-Inspector, and PK Ruatray, a Constable. The Minister had on Sunday directed the RPF DG to probe into the incident.
Notably, a video clip came to fore on Sunday in which three policemen and another man were seen hitting the physically-challenged man with their boots with the victim lying on the ground on platform No 4 of the railway station with his crutches. Partha Sarathi Jena, a social worker from Balia here, captured the inhuman incident on his mobile phone and shared it with media.
The differently-abled, identified as Suresh of Kharagpur in W Bengal, had been pulled out from a Guwahati-bound train at the railway station on January 3 on the charge of mobile phone theft in train.The suspended RPF men were the escorts of the Guwahati-bound train.