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OKRAJHAR: At least 20 CRPF personnel, returning from New Delhi in the Brahmaputra Mail, were injured in a mob attack after the securitymen
allegedly tried to molest a woman and assaulted her brother at Fakiragram railway station in Assam's Kokrajhar district on Tuesday.
The clash broke out between locals and the CRPF jawans when over 3,000 villagers from Fakiragram and its neighbouring areas rushed to the station following rumours that a woman had been thrown out of a train after being allegedly raped by some security personnel.
According to eyewitnesses, locals threw stones at the two compartments carrying the CRPF personnel and assaulted the jawans with lathis. A police reinforcement, led by additional superintendent of police (Kokrajhar) Kalyan Phukan, rushed to the spot and fired in the air to disperse the mob. A source said the locals also attacked the Howrah-Tinsukia UP 5906. Two students, Sudarshan Shah and Sofikul Islam, were injured in the melee.
Police and GRP personnel have so far detained over 45 security personnel. "Eleven of the detained securitymen are critically wounded. They are being interrogated and cross-examined. They may be arrested later," sources said.
The woman said she had boarded the 4056 Up Brahmaputra Mail from New Jalpaiguri late on Monday evening and was going to Goalpara along with her brother. The two compartments, adjacent to the general coach in which she was in, were carrying jawans belonging to the army, CISF, CRPF, Assam Rifles, NSG and ITBF.
"Initially, they were quite well-behaved. But as the train was approaching Dhupguri, some of the jawans started making advances at me and even beat up Sanjib, my brother," said the woman.
"I tried to resist the jawans. But they tried to throw me out," said Sanjib, who called up his kin at Fakiragram from his sister's cellphone. It was then that the rumour spread and locals rushed to the railway station, waiting for the train to reach Fakiragram.
The jawans, however, denied that there was any molestation bid on the train. "I was talking to my wife when we were suddenly attacked. People started throwing stones at us. Some even entered the compartment. Before we could make out anything, many of us were injured," a jawan said. "We did not get any chance to protect ourselves," another jawan said.
Nobait Deka, a CISF jawan from Guwahati posted with Delhi Metro, was among the injured. He claimed that the jawans had nothing to do with the molestation bid.
OKRAJHAR: At least 20 CRPF personnel, returning from New Delhi in the Brahmaputra Mail, were injured in a mob attack after the securitymen
allegedly tried to molest a woman and assaulted her brother at Fakiragram railway station in Assam's Kokrajhar district on Tuesday.
The clash broke out between locals and the CRPF jawans when over 3,000 villagers from Fakiragram and its neighbouring areas rushed to the station following rumours that a woman had been thrown out of a train after being allegedly raped by some security personnel.
According to eyewitnesses, locals threw stones at the two compartments carrying the CRPF personnel and assaulted the jawans with lathis. A police reinforcement, led by additional superintendent of police (Kokrajhar) Kalyan Phukan, rushed to the spot and fired in the air to disperse the mob. A source said the locals also attacked the Howrah-Tinsukia UP 5906. Two students, Sudarshan Shah and Sofikul Islam, were injured in the melee.
Police and GRP personnel have so far detained over 45 security personnel. "Eleven of the detained securitymen are critically wounded. They are being interrogated and cross-examined. They may be arrested later," sources said.
The woman said she had boarded the 4056 Up Brahmaputra Mail from New Jalpaiguri late on Monday evening and was going to Goalpara along with her brother. The two compartments, adjacent to the general coach in which she was in, were carrying jawans belonging to the army, CISF, CRPF, Assam Rifles, NSG and ITBF.
"Initially, they were quite well-behaved. But as the train was approaching Dhupguri, some of the jawans started making advances at me and even beat up Sanjib, my brother," said the woman.
"I tried to resist the jawans. But they tried to throw me out," said Sanjib, who called up his kin at Fakiragram from his sister's cellphone. It was then that the rumour spread and locals rushed to the railway station, waiting for the train to reach Fakiragram.
The jawans, however, denied that there was any molestation bid on the train. "I was talking to my wife when we were suddenly attacked. People started throwing stones at us. Some even entered the compartment. Before we could make out anything, many of us were injured," a jawan said. "We did not get any chance to protect ourselves," another jawan said.
Nobait Deka, a CISF jawan from Guwahati posted with Delhi Metro, was among the injured. He claimed that the jawans had nothing to do with the molestation bid.
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