KOLKATA/HOWRAH: Barely a week after a woman volleyball player was thrown off a running train near Bareilly, at least four girls from Calcutta University were molested on the Amritsar Mail around midnight on Sunday when the train was passing through Uttar Pradesh. The incident once again raised questions on the security of rail passengers, especially women.
The students lodged a complaint with the Government Railway Police on reaching Howrah on Monday morning. They said they had raised an the alarm when the train reached Patna but nobody came to their assistance. The girls were in a group of 18 students from Ballygunge Science College that had travelled to Varanasi on a study tour on April 9. Their return journey to Kolkata was booked in sleeper class in the S7 coach of Amritsar Mail. The students said about a dozen people without valid tickets boarded the train in Varanasi and occupied their berths.
"Some of these hooligans were drunk and claimed to be students returning from a job interview. When we requested them to vacate our berths, they got violent and started hurling abuses at us. They molesting three girls and injured another. There were some security personnel on board but they were outnumbered by the gang," a student said. Around 12.40 am, when the train reached Patna, the victims pulled the chain and screamed for help. The goons got off but non one came to their aid.
The students lodged a complaint with the Government Railway Police on reaching Howrah on Monday morning. They said they had raised an the alarm when the train reached Patna but nobody came to their assistance. The girls were in a group of 18 students from Ballygunge Science College that had travelled to Varanasi on a study tour on April 9. Their return journey to Kolkata was booked in sleeper class in the S7 coach of Amritsar Mail. The students said about a dozen people without valid tickets boarded the train in Varanasi and occupied their berths.
"Some of these hooligans were drunk and claimed to be students returning from a job interview. When we requested them to vacate our berths, they got violent and started hurling abuses at us. They molesting three girls and injured another. There were some security personnel on board but they were outnumbered by the gang," a student said. Around 12.40 am, when the train reached Patna, the victims pulled the chain and screamed for help. The goons got off but non one came to their aid.
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