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This is an archive article published on June 5, 2004

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8220;Nobody can stop dacoities in train,8217;8217; said Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Friday, when asked about the increasing incide...

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8220;Nobody can stop dacoities in train,8217;8217; said Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Friday, when asked about the increasing incidents of robberies in trains passing through Bihar.

Ever since RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav took charge as the Railway Minister, six organised dacoities have taken place on trains passing through the state, wherein three persons have been murdered.

8216;8216;If you show the same dacoity 13 times on television, that doesn8217;t mean there were 13 dacoities,8217;8217; said Rabri in her official chamber in the Assembly.

Drawing a strange analogy, the Chief Minister said: 8216;8216;Can a government stop if two brothers quarrel?8217;8217;

8216;8216;They train dacoities were rampant even when the NDA government was in place. Crimes take place everywhere in the country,8217;8217; she added.

In the last three months 40 dacoities on trains have taken place in different divisions of Bihar. Laloo and Rabri had been till date taking refuge in the argument that it was the inefficiency of the railways. Now, with Laloo as the Minister and in control of the Railway Protection Force, and his wife at the helm of affairs in the state, the couple seems to be looking for ingenious excuses.

 

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