Shaheed Ishwar Chaudhary Halt Complex
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Members of the gang that steals grains and other goods from goods trains passing through Shaheed Ishwar Chaudhary Halt of Gaya-Koderma railway section, spread rumors of kidnapping and made people pelt stones at RPF jawans and rescued one accused from the custody of RPF jawans. Kar ran away. But in this incident, a person engaged in security of a goods warehouse got injured.
An FIR has been registered against a dozen unknown people in the city’s Mufassil police station in the case. This entire incident happened late Wednesday evening. The matter has come to light after an FIR was registered in the police station on Thursday. However, the accused who escaped from the custody of RPF personnel was identified as Ajit Kumar, a resident of Buniyadganj police station area.
According to the information received, late on Wednesday evening half a dozen criminals were preparing to cut the signal near the railway line near Shaheed Ishwar Choudhary Halt to commit a crime in trains. RPF officers got information about the activities of the criminals. As soon as the information was received, RPF officers and soldiers in number of four reached the spot. However, RPF jawans conducted a raid and caught one of the accused and started taking him to the post at Manpur Railway Station.
If people are to be believed, other gang members who escaped during the raid spread the rumor of kidnapping of the youth among the public. Hearing about the kidnapping, people blocked the RPF officers and soldiers and attacked them. Ajay Kumar, the warehouse security guard, got injured in the said incident. During that time, seeing the anger of the people, the RPF officers and soldiers hid in a room. After receiving information about such an incident, the local police arrived with a team and evacuated the RPF soldiers safely.
It is known that criminals steal grains and other goods on a large scale by turning the signal of goods train passing through Gaya-Dhanbad railway section red on the outer signal of Shaheed Ishwar Chaudhary Halt. The RPF post was already aware of this. For this reason, RPF soldiers were keeping an eye out to catch the criminals. In this regard, a case has been registered against three named and a dozen unidentified by RPF officials in Muffasil police station. Meanwhile, raids are being conducted to arrest the criminals.