No instruction to give pistols in place of rifles to RPF jawans on trains: Central Railway

The Railway Board has not given any directive to replace the automatic rifles of Railway Protection Force (RPF) escorting parties with pistols in the wake of the recent train firing incident, the Central Railway said on Friday.

Addressing a press conference on the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, CR general manager Naresh Lalwani said no such communication has been received. He too had not issued any directive to the RPF to replace rifles with pistols, he added.