Summary:
Subhash Gupta, president, Rail Yatri Parishad said: "It seems that these train bullies do not fear railway administration and its police. Boarding a local train, during rush hour, is a life-threatening hazard as is, there is the added danger of crossing the notorious train bullies that prohibit people from alighting and boarding the train at certain stations on fast trains. Shukla was beaten black and blue when he boarded a Virar-Churchgate local at Mira Road station at 7 am. According to Shukla, the group contained at least 10 persons, of which five assaulted him," said deputy commissioner of police, GRP (Western Railway), Purshottam Karam. Television journalist, Sudhir Shukla, became a victim of one such gang on Wednesday..