In operations conducted by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Northeast Frontier Railway, a total of eight children were rescued at Rangiya, New Bongaigaon, Katihar, New Jalpaiguri and
Guwahati railway stations. Among the rescued children, six were boys and two were girls.
According to Chief Public Relations Officer of Northeast Frontier Railway, Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, during this period the force personnel also extended medical assistance for childbirth to two women passengers inside trains at Agartala and Lumding railway stations. On 4th November, RPF personnel on duty at Agartala railway station provided delivery assistance to a woman passenger in an Up train. The passenger gave birth to a baby boy. She was later taken by ambulance to G B Hospital, Agartala for further treatment. On 5th November, an RPF team including a woman Head Constable at Lumding railway station helped a woman passenger during childbirth in a Down train. The passenger gave birth to a baby girl.
Apart from this, during this period in separate operations, the RPF apprehended four persons involved in four cases. The teams recovered four pistols and four magazines at Badarpur, four pieces of fake gold worth about Rs 20,000 at Harmuti, 1.031 kg of brown sugar worth about Rs 2 crore at New Jalpaiguri and a stolen mobile phone worth about Rs 17,000 at Kamakhya. In other operations, about 13.06 kg of ganja worth about Rs 6.80 lakh and 449 bottles of liquor worth Rs 6.80 lakh were recovered. In another operation at Katihar, 6.750 litres of liquor was seized.
