The Hindu : Another eve-teasing incident on train

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Wednesday, Dec 31, 2003

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Another eve-teasing incident on train

By Our Special Correspondent

PATNA Dec. 30. A group of youths from Sikkim has lodged a complaint with the Barauni Government Railway Police (GRP) that girl members of their group were subjected to eve-teasing by anti-social elements on the Dadar-Guwahati Express during their return journey from a vacation on Sunday night.

The group also registered their protest with the Katihar Railway Superintendent of Police, who, said obscene comments had been made.

The miscreants, the complaint said, boarded the train at Mughalsarai junction in Uttar Pradesh and forcibly occupied the seats reserved by the 40-member group. When the train was on its way to Mokama from Patna, they indulged in the ``filthy act''.

Before getting down in Mokama, they smashed the lights when the coach attendant intervened.

They also hurled stones at the compartment, the complaint said.

Following the incident, the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, Laloo Prasad Yadav, summoned top police officials and ordered speedy action against the culprits.

The incident happens to be the second of its kind in less than a week and the third in less than two months. A few days ago, a ward councillor of the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC), Ashok Yadav, and three others, molested women members of a group from Jammu and Kashmir in a train.

The Railway authorities held a meeting with State Government officials to chalk out a plan to prevent such incidents.

While the passengers have been advised to contact the guard and driver, rail officials have been instructed to report the matter to the control room immediately and seek police help.

Meanwhile the GRP have approached the court for an arrest warrant against the ward councillor and to attach his property.

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