Mob attacks CRPF men

ROURKELA, April 7: A mob beat up CRPF jawans at the Rajgangpur station last night. Nine CRPF jawans, who were posted in the Naxalite-prone district of Rahgada, were on their way to Bankura in West Bengal for election duty when the incident took place.
According to CRPF sources, the jawans objected to a family sitting in their berth as the security personnel were carrying loaded weapons and other sophisticated weaponry.
A woman of the group was, however, not ready to vacate the berth, while the man had an altercation with the jawans but things calmed down later.
But as soon as the train reached Rajgangpur, a mob of more than 100 people attacked the compartment and assaulted the jawans. And before fleeing the spot, the mob shoved one jawan and snatched his rifle which was recovered later today by the police.
When the mob showed no sign of retracting, the jawans fired 37 rounds in the air to disperse the people.
Police said there was a havildar in the compartment and he spoke to the family in Urdu, asking them politely to vacate the berth.
But the man allegedly misbehaved with the jawans. Police suspect that he had passed the message to his friends over mobile and managed to bring the mob to the station before the train arrived.
The other theory is that one of the CRPF jawans had forcefully removed the woman by holding her hand and this enraged the person traveling with them leading to the incident. The journey of the jawans was terminated at the Rourkela station and the local battalion took away the injured.
One of the jawans’ hands had been fractured, while others had bruises.