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      | Patna, (Bihar Times): Eighty passengers of the   general
compartment of the 2141 Kurla-Patna (Rajendranagar)
Express were   robbed of their belongings by armed
criminals between Kalyan and Kasera   railway stations
in Maharashtra on the wee hours of Sunday.
 |  |      The   robbers, numbering over a dozen, boarded the train
    in Kurla and started   looting the passengers at the
    gun-point just after the train left Kalyan.   They later
    pulled the chain to get down at an isolated place
    before   Kasera. Belongings worth Rs five lakhs were
    looted by them. This include   wrist-watches, mobiles,
    gold rings, luggage and other ornaments.
 They   lodged a case at the Patna railway station on
    Monday morning after the train   reached its final
    destination as they alleged that their complaints   were
    not properly entertained in any of the station   in
    Maharashtra.
 
 However, the Maharashtra Railway Police   Commissioner,
    A K Sharma, told a section of Press that the police
    had   registered a case of dacoity in Kalyan on Sunday
    morning. The criminals also   misbehaved with the
    passengers, especially women.
 
 At Patna railway   station the traumatized passengers
    urged the railway minister Lalu Yadav to   intervene and
    provide proper protection to the passengers.
 
 The robbers   seemed to have fully capitalized on the
    anti-Bihari sentiment in Maharashtra.   What dismayed
    the passengers was the indifferent attitude of the
    police in   that state.
 
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