Through PTI
KOLKATA: Viral footage on social media of a horse taking part in a experience in a packed native educate has landed its proprietor in hassle with the RPF arresting him for offences beneath the Railway Act, an legit mentioned right here on Saturday.
Gafoor Ali Mollah, a 40-year-old guy, had made up our minds to offer his horse a educate experience from Dakshin Durgapur to Netra, a distance of 23 km, as a substitute of trudging again house after a tiring race that the stallion had participated in.
After the images of the pony status amongst passengers in a dealer compartment of an EMU native educate on Thursday become viral, RPF government situated its proprietor at his Netra house and arrested him on Friday with the assistance of the native police.
“He has been booked beneath more than a few sections of the Railway Act for growing nuisance in railway assets and unauthorised career in a educate,” Jap Railway spokesperson Ekalabya Chakraborty mentioned, including that animals can’t be travelling in passenger compartments and a separate wagon needs to be booked for the aim.
Chakraborty additionally mentioned that the 40-year-old-man and his horse had boarded the educate within the night time, when extra consideration is paid to girls’s safety within the compartments.