NEW DELHI :
A FREIGHT train guard
emerged as saviour for two girls
who boarded a train at Hathras
station to escape from some
stalkers and reached Etawah,
about 140 km away from their
city in Uttar Pradesh.
A railway official said that
the guard (also known as train
manager), Ravineet Arya, was
on his way to sign on for his
duty at Etawah station at
around 11 pm on August 3
when he spotted the two girls
sitting at one end of the platform bench in a distressed condition.
“Arya asked them if they
needed any help.
They told him
that they were the residents of
Hathras and were returning
from a tuition centre when
some anti-social elements
started stalking them,” the official said.
He added, “They got very
scared and finding Hathras station nearby they hurriedly
entered the station and got into
a train to hide themselves. The
train departed within a few
minutes.”
According to railway sources,
the girls contacted their families through their mobile
phones from the moving train
but the family members were
also clueless how to handle the
situation and where to ask them
to get off. “Though the train
stopped at small stations, they
didn’t disembark because some
passengers who were sympathetic to the girls advised them
to get off at Etawah which is a
big station having better passenger amenities and help,”
another railway official said.