Ernakulam family robbed on train, RPF refuses to accept complaint

Ernakulam family robbed on train, RPF refuses to accept complaint
Manu Sebastian, a nurse working in a hospital at Mahroni in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur district.

Moovattupuzha: A Malayali family was robbed on a train near Nagpur as they were going home for a death anniversary. The victims said that the coach was not guarded by Railway Protection Force personnel and the railway authorities in Nagpur and Kochi kept turning him back without accepting their complaint.

Manu Sebastian, a nurse working in a hospital at Mahroni in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur district, was on his way to Aluva along with his wife, child and mother to attend his father’s first death anniversary when two youngsters robbed them on the S8 coach of the Nizamuddin-Ernakulam Millennium Express on December 11.

The robbers struck within 10 minutes of the train leaving the Nagpur station. The train had stopped for want of the green signal when the duo snatched a bag from Sebastian’s wife, Priyanka. The family lost Rs 40,000, gold ornaments of two sovereigns, four mobile phones and a watch. They had to ask around for money to carry on with their journey home.

The robbers struck on the next coach on the same day. Bharatiya Dalit Sahitya Academy southern secretary Radha Prabhakaran was robbed of Rs 2,000, two mobile phones, ATM cards and other documents.

Babu George, who accompanied Prabhakaran, said that the RPF guards were missing in action on the coach. Sebastian also said that there was no one to guard the coaches at night. Repeated calls to the help line went unanswered.

When the train reached the next station, Balharshah, Manu rushed to lodge a complaint but the RPF authorities refused to accept it, saying that he was supposed to raise the issue at his destination station. When he got down at Aluva and approached the station authorities, he was told to go to Ernakulam, the final stop of the train. At Ernakulam, he was told to lodge a complaint at Nagpur.

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