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Jalandhar: The Jalandhar Government Railway Police (GRP) station is running at a snail’s pace on the 400-km-long railway tracks. The reason is obvious, more reach but less resources. Due to its larger jurisdiction, many a time, the GRP officials cannot reach the accident spot on time, which often delays the initiation of legal proceedings.The only police station of the city has 22 sub-police posts, which have been constructed to keep a watch on hundreds of kilometres of railway tracks spread in four districts, including Jalandhar, Nawanshahr, Kapurthala and Phagwara.The City GRP station alone has 100 police personnel, while its 22 sub-police posts, spread in four districts, have only 250 policemen.Station House Officer (SHO) BS Randhawa said they faced a huge problem to reach the incident spot on time. “The city police station and 22 other police posts are being headed by me and whenever any incident occurs in our jurisdiction, being a head of the GRP in four districts, I have to reach the spot to initiate legal proceedings,” he said. In the GRP limit, about 400-km-long railway tracks fall and on many occasions, we find it difficult to reach the spot on time and investigation gets delayed.In few of the recent incidents, when they reached the spot, they had to face the public wrath.

A GRP official, requesting anonymity, said whenever the government deploys their policemen on VIP duty, their problem gets aggravated. “Due to the overburden of work, they are being forced to sacrifice even those leaves for which they are entitled,” he regretted. 

‘Rehri’ to transport bodies to hospital! The Jalandhar Government Railway Police (GRP), one of the biggest police stations in the Doaba region, with jurisdiction spread over 400-km-long railway tracks in four districts, surprisingly has no vehicle to transport bodies to hospital from the accident spot. Interestingly, instead of a vehicle, the GRP "thana" has permanently kept a "rehri" for the purpose. Even in the recent incident at the Tanda level crossing, when a mother along with her two children had committed suicide by jumping before a train, the GRP cops had to bear the wrath of the public, as bodies of the trio remained on the tracks for about two hours. Later, they brought the "rehri" for the same. The GRP officials have demanded the arrangement of motor vehicles for this purpose.

300 lives lost on rly tracks this year

GRP officials revealed that 300 persons were killed on the railway tracks in various accidents from January to September this year.