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CRPF personnel ‘molest’ woman on train, thrashed

KOKRAJHAR: At least 20 CRPF personnel, returning from New Delhi on the Brahmaputra Mail, were injured after a mob thrashed them for allegedly molesting a woman and assaulting her brother at Fakiragram railway station in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Tuesday.

The clash broke out 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. An eyewitnesses said the mob stoned two compartments carrying the CRPF men and assaulted the jawans. KOKRAJHAR: At least 20 CRPF personnel, returning from New Delhi on the Brahmaputra Mail, were injured after a mob thrashed them for allegedly molesting a woman and assaulting her brother at Fakiragram railway station in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Tuesday.

The clash broke out 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. An eyewitnesses said the mob stoned two compartments carrying the CRPF men and assaulted the jawans.