This story is from July 3, 2017

Onion worth Rs 50 lakh looted

People allegedly looted onion worth Rs50 lakh from Bapudham (Motihari) railway station on Saturday evening. They reportedly carried the onion bags on cycle, rickshaw, car and other vehicles.
Onion worth Rs 50 lakh looted
MOTIHARI: People allegedly looted onion worth Rs50 lakh from Bapudham (Motihari) railway station on Saturday evening. They reportedly carried the onion bags on cycle, rickshaw, car and other vehicles.
On Sunday, the railway protection force (RPF) and government rail police (GRP) lodged separate cases of loot and started inquiry.
RPF inspector Pradip Barnawal said the huge quantity of onion belonged to businessman Ashok Dollar of Motihari and it was unloaded from the goods train at rake point on Saturday evening.

“According to the businessman, he discarded a few bags from the stock as they were not in very good condition and asked the persons around the rake point to take them for consumption free of cost. Within no time, hundreds of people assembled there and took away all the onion bags,” said Barnawal.
The RPF inspector said the businessman has lodged a case. He has alleged that his onion bags were looted by a mob but he did not mention how much bags were looted.
According to goods clerk at the station, around 40,000 onion bags were unloaded from 42 bogies of a goods train.
Sources said around 30,000 bags were loaded on trucks and sent to the godowns within a few hours. Rest 10, 000 bags containing mostly rotten onion were left at the rake point which were looted in the evening.

RPF and GRP personnel have seized 12 motorcycles, one car, one SUV, one pick-up van and one motor cart along with a dozen bicycles loaded with onion. Thirty one persons have been arrested in this connection
According to railway sources, similar onion loot had taken place on March 15 and the same businessman was the victim. At that time also, he had asked the passersby to take onion free of cost because it was rotten.
Some GRP officials said they suspect some kind of scandal behind this loot probably for insurance money. “This case is being investigated from several angles and we hope to reach the conclusion very soon,” said a GRP official.
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