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Seven RPF personnel suspended

June 25, 2004 13:38 IST

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav suspended seven Railway Police Force personnel deployed on the Mumbai-Howrah Mail just hours after an armed gang stabbed and injured a passenger on the train and looted cash and valuables worth Rs 1.5 lakh in Kaimur district of Bihar early on Friday morning.

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"Despite seven RPF personnel on the train, the dacoity took place. I have ordered suspension of all of them [RPF personnel]," he said.

The minister said one dacoit boarded the train at Mughalsarai without a confirmed ticket and when the train stopped at the next station, he along with two others entered a three-tier sleeper coach and robbed the passengers.

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