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Majority of passengers do not place their baggage for scan, reach platforms without being checkedTribune News ServiceBathinda, December 8A baggage scanner machine (BSM) installed at the city railway station, to ensure proper security measures, is barely serving its purpose as passengers enter the station premises without their luggage being scanned in the machine. The RPF personnel manning the machine was seen asking only a handful of passengers to place their luggage on the scanner machine. Sources said installing a BSM would not serve its purpose until luggage of every passenger was scanned before it reaches any platform or train. Moreover, there is no BSM installed at the exit point of the railway station and a large number of passengers enter the station premises from there. Notably, to enhance the security arrangements at city railway station, RPF had installed a sophisticated BSM at the entrance of the city railway station..