The GRP personnel, who claimed that they opened fire to foil a robbery attempt on a train in Bihar critically injuring a vendor, actually tried to extort passengers in the early hours today, police said after a preliminary inquiry.
Official reports had earlier said that the GRP personnel had fired trying to foil an attempt by robbers to loot passengers of Jamlpur-Kiul DMU train at Dhanuri railway station in Lakhisarai district.
IG (Railway) S K Bardwaj, who rushed to the spot after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ordered state police chief to get the incident inquired into, rejected the ealier report and said after a preliminary inquiry "it appears to be a case of high handedness and illegal act by the GRP personnel."
He also ordered arrest of all the six GRP personnel -- a sub-inspector, a havildar and four constables.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
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