Robbery was committed in the Dn 1812 Varanasi-Ranchi Express train on Wednesday night on the Coal India Chord section of Dhanbad railway division. Cash worth Rs 62,000 was looted from 32 passengers. At least 17 cell phones were also looted.
One passenger Rajender Mehta was attacked with a sharp edged weapon by the train robbers. The Barkakana GRP officer-in-charge S Sharma has confirmed the robbery, loot of 62,000 rupees and 17 cell phones and injury to one passenger Mehta. Sharma said an FIR has been lodged by the injured Mehta.
The highly belligerent passengers beat up two cops of the police escort party of this train. An ASI and one havildar bore the brunt of the victim passengers. Sharma also confirmed this episode. These two GRP cops had gone into this bogie to inquire into the matter when the victim passengers overpowered them, held them in captivity till Barkakana railway station where their release was made with great many protests from the victim passengers. The GRP OC Sharma had conceded this episode that happened to the escort police party’s two officials.
A general bogie of this train was looted last night. The robbers 6 in number got into this bogie like any other passenger at Barwadeeh railway station but began to loot the passengers once this train left Barwadeeh railway station. The robbers pulled train’s vacuum between Hehegara and Kumandi railway station and slipped into night . In only 7 days time this is the second train robbery. last week on December 19 Bhopal Howrah express train was looted by robbers in UP but they got down in Jharkhand.
On December 25 night this Varanasi-Ranchi express train was looted. Rajender Mehta has filed the FIR with the Barkakana police station. His condition is out of danger. He was going to Ranchi to get his wife treated there. He lost more cash than anyone else. He was the only one who put up a resistance to train robbers only to get injured with a sharp weapon katari which made him to bleed.