The Government Railway Police (GRP) on Thursday arrested a railway ticket counter man of the lingaraj passenger halt (PH) for assaulting a senior citizen of the city. The accused is now in the Jharpada jail.
According to GRP IIC Soubhagya Kumar Swain, one Nilamani Nayak alias Nilu (45) of Sundarpada under the Airfield police limits in the city has taken tender of the lingaraj PH for booking railway tickets during last
20 years.
On Thursday afternoon, retired SBI Manager Bijay Kumar Praharaj of Mahtab Road in the city came to the lingaraj PH along with his sister to see her off to Puri. When Praharaj and other passengers came to the ticket counter, they found it was closed from inside.
They knocked at the door as the train was about to reach. Suddenly, accused Nayak under severe influence of alcohol came from inside by opening the glass door of the counter and attacked front man Praharaj with an iron rod resulting in injury in his head with serious bleeding.
After getting a complaint from the victim, the GRP reached the spot and started probing. The police arrested Nayak and forwarded him to a local court.