RailEnquiry

Nearly 2 kilometres away from the Pune railway station, a senior police inspector from the Railway Protection Force (RPF) got assaulted by a Class 1V railway employee and his wife after the couple was accused of smuggling cement, stealing electricity, and procuring an illegal water connection.

The accused identified as Anil Gaikwad was approached by Arvind Kumar Lakhoriya, a senior police inspector attached to the RPF (Pune Circle and heads the reserve police force of RPF) along with his team after they had found that the former who lives in railway quarters had encroached on railway property to build a makeshift shed and was illegally selling cement. They also discovered some gunny bags containing cement stolen from the goods carriers at his residence. The accused were also caught stealing electricity from poles meant for the railways and had secured an illegal water connection.

When police personnel asked the couple about the same, Anil Gaikwad started hurling abuses at Lakhoria. Gaikwad’s wife snatched the shoulder badges of the senior inspector, while her husband pelted stones at him.

The Bund Garden police have booked Gaikwad and his wife under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Indian Electricity Act, 2003.