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Police official accused of misbehaviour on train

By S. Anil Radhakrishnan

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM May 30. The Southern Railway has taken up with the Director General of Police the incident of a Deputy Superintendent of Police working at Kalpetta in Wayanad district allegedly misbehaving with a 24-year-old woman on the 6330 Malabar Express coming to Thiruvananthapuram in the wee hours of May 27.

Railway officials decided to take up the matter with the DGP because an attempt was allegedly on to hush up the incident and let the official off the hook.

The Dy.SP, who is attached to the Crime Detachment, had boarded the train in Kozhikode and was proceeding to Ernakulam North. The official, who was in an inebriated condition, allegedly misbehaved with the woman, who was travelling with her husband and mother in the S-7 coach of the train.

Commotion prevailed in the coach as many passengers demanded action against the police official. Fellow passengers asked the travelling ticket examiner (TTE) who was in the same coach that the miscreant be handed over to the police.

The couple gave a written complaint against the official to the TTE and he in turn had intimated the duty station master at the Thrissur Railway Station about the incident.

When the train arrived in Thrissur, the police officer was detrained there and taken to the Railway Police Station. The official, who at first claimed that he was a teacher, later revealed his identity to the Railway Police personnel.

The Railway Police had allowed the official to leave after serving him a notice under Section 145 (causing public nuisance) of the Indian Railway Act for appearing before the magistrate in Thrissur on May 29. Railway sources said the police official did not turn up before the magistrate today.

Railway officials have initiated a departmental inquiry into the incident.

The TTE was summoned to the Divisional Railway headquarters today and his statement recorded. The passenger manifest of the train for that date was being checked to ascertain who all were there in the coach on the day of the incident.

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