‘Bihar boy died due to accident, not by attacks’

Kumar, a resident of Nalanda had come to the city last Saturday to take the railway board exam the next day, Sharma said. The accident occurred around 7.30 am, when he was trying to board a local train. He slipped and fell on platform number one at Andheri, Sharma said.

The CCTV on platform number two had captured the footage which showed he was severely injured and a coolie helped him rush to the hospital, he said, adding Kumar was pronounced dead on reaching the hospital.

Meanwhile, Pawan’s father has filed a murder case against MNS chief Raj Thackeray in Patna.

Railway property vandalised in Bihar

Railway property again bore the brunt of students ire in Bihar on Saturday during the dawn-to-dusk shutdown by All India Students Association, the students wing of CPI-ML(Liberation), who vandalised its property in several places to protest the attack on Biharis by MNS in Mumbai.

Bandh supporters entered the Gaya-Kiul passenger train at Sheikhpura, detached the engine from the bogies and forced the driver to take it a few kilometres away, Railway sources said.

As a result train services on Kiul-Gaya section was disrupted for about four hours after which the police baton charged them to retreat.

Five agitators were taken into custody, police said.

Some shops were also looted and vandalised at Sheikhpura by the agitators before being chased away by the police, District Magistrate Arvind Kumar Singh said.

At Darbhanga police had to thrice canecharge AISA activists, who smashed the glass panes of the ticket booking and other counters of the railway station, deputy superintendent of police Parvez Akhtar said adding six of them were taken into custody.

The agitators blocked vehicular traffic at Donar Chowk and Tower Chowk at Darbhanga for some time before being chased away.

District Magistrate Arun Prasad and Superintendent of Police Pankaj Darad were moving around in a convoy of vehicles with police contingents to quell violence.

A group of around 20 school students halted the Delhi-Patna Jansadharan Express for about half-an-hour, Buxar officials said. They were persuaded by railway and local officials to call off the stir.

At Narkatiaganj station in West Champaran, a railway passenger was injured when bandh supporters hurled stones at Saptkranti Express breaking some windowpanes, Superintendent of Railway Police, Muzaffarpur, Amit Lodha said.

In Begusarai official sources said the agitators blocked NH 28 and 31, besides the main roads for some time. More than 50 persons were taken into custody.

In the state capital, life remained unaffected with schools open and business establishments doing normal business.

Around 60 AISA activists were detained as precautionary measure when they took out a procession from Patna University, senior superintendent of police Amit Kumar said.

The state-wide bandh called by the students wings of various Opposition parties to protest the attacks on Biharis by Raj Thackeray’s MNS lost much of its sting as barring AISA, all the others withdrew.

“The students wing of RJD has been directed to withdraw as it would have caused further hardship to our own people, who have been the target of violent attacks by RajThackeray’s men,” Shyam Rajak, RJD national spokesman of said on Friday.

Rajak said all UPA allies including Congress, Lok Janshakti Party and Nationalist Congress Party are also not participating in the stir.