{"id":302090,"date":"2018-09-03T07:39:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T07:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302090"},"modified":"2018-09-03T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T07:39:44","slug":"armed-dacoits-rob-passengers-onboard-ganga-kaveri-express-train-in-uttar-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/armed-dacoits-rob-passengers-onboard-ganga-kaveri-express-train-in-uttar-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed dacoits rob passengers onboard Ganga-Kaveri Express train in Uttar Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302091 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train-534x462.jpg 534w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train-486x420.jpg 486w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/>Several passengers on board\u00a0a Ganga-Kaveri Express train\u00a0were robbed by armed dacoits in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Chitrakoot district early on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The dacoits looted jewellery and cash from the passengers, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dacoits blocked the rail tracks and stopped the train as it left the Manikpur railway station and was headed for Allahabad, Police added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The dacoits\u00a0attacked and threatened clueless sleeping passengers after barging into two coaches of\u00a0the Ganga-Kaveri Express.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the passengers who were travelling in the train, there were dozens of armed men, they smashed glass panes of the two coaches and bashed up the people inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It took more than an hour for dacoits to carry out the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police arrived after someone dialed the emergency service number.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The search operation is underway<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several passengers on board\u00a0a Ganga-Kaveri Express train\u00a0were robbed by armed dacoits in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Chitrakoot district early on Monday. The dacoits looted jewellery and cash from the passengers, police said. Dacoits blocked the rail tracks and stopped the train as it left the Manikpur railway station and was headed for Allahabad, Police added. The dacoits\u00a0attacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[4606,4607,4609,4608,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302092,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302090\/revisions\/302092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}