A group of youths boarded the Amritsar Mail from Varanasi without tickets late last night and forcibly occupied seats of 18 students in the reserved compartment. When the students, doing post graduation in Human Rights, protested and sought intervention of RPF personnel, they were physically and verbally abused by the hoodlums who outnumbered them, the officials said.
The youths molested four girls and tore the shirt of one of them before getting down at Patna station, according to a complaint filed by the students with Howrah GRP.
When one of the male students protested, he was also attacked with sticks, the complaint stated.
"We pulled the chain twice at Patna and shouted for help but no one came to our rescue. We could not find any security personnel. None of the co-passengers protested when the girls were being molested inside the crowded train," 25-year-old Anamitra Dasgupta, one of the victims, said. The students were returning to Howrah from Varanasi, where they had gone for a university study trip.
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