Railway Protection Force

RPF

Overhead Equipment pole

Kurla

Dadar

Detonators

Central Railway

Gangman claims to have dropped bag on being hit by a man standing along tracks.Railway officials, who are already grappling with several attempts at sabotage on the tracks, were yesterday faced with another major worry: a missing bag of explosives.The matter came to light when gang man Ramjit Yadav and his colleague filed a complaint with the) on Wednesday evening, in which they claimed to have dropped the bag while travelling on a train.According to the officials, the complaint said that Yadav had dropped the bag, which contained gelatin sticks and denonators, from the moving train when he was hit by a man standing on analong the tracks. The incident occurred betweenandAfter acquiring details of the incident from the gang men, the complaint was forwarded to the Dadar RPF. When they were summoned to the Dadar RPF, the gang men informed the staff that the bag had gone missing when they were working on the tracks between Dadar and Kurla. They said they suspected it to be the handiwork of afew junkies.Despite the RPF conducting a thorough search of the area, the bag could not be found. The two gang men were then sent back to get an official complaint from the track maintenance department, which oversees maintenance work.and gelatin sticks are used by gang men to warn train drivers, in the event of a mishap.“According to preliminary information, the bag contains detonators among other things. We are trying to ascertain the exact nature of events.” said Ravinder Goel, divisional railway manager,“This is a serious issue, as it can lead to a big problem if they fall into the wrong hands,” said a senior RPF official who did not want to be named.