{"id":595032,"date":"2023-08-01T10:48:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=595032"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:31:58","slug":"railways-may-take-a-relook-at-firearms-policy-for-rpf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-may-take-a-relook-at-firearms-policy-for-rpf\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways may take a relook at firearms policy for RPF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The carnage on the Jaipur-Mumbai superfast train that left four dead may force a rethink on the policy on equipping RPF personnel with firearms in such large numbers during train escort duty.<\/p>\n<p>A total of four personnel were deployed in the train escort team and AK-47 rifles were allocated to two constables, including the accused, Chetan Singh who fired 12 rounds of bullets. Assistant sub-inspector Tikaram Meena, among the four victims, and constable Narendra Parmar were in possession of revolvers with 10 rounds of bullets each. A Government Railway Police (GRP) official said, &#8220;This incident has shaken the railways. They said they will examine the policy of allowing firearms in large numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The carnage on the Jaipur-Mumbai superfast train that left four dead may force a rethink on the policy on equipping RPF personnel with firearms in such large numbers during train escort duty. A total of four personnel were deployed in the train escort team and AK-47 rifles were allocated to two constables, including the accused, Chetan Singh who fired 12 rounds of bullets. Assistant sub-inspector Tikaram Meena, among the four victims, and constable Narendra Parmar were in possession of revolvers with 10 rounds of bullets each. A Government Railway Police (GRP) official said, &#8220;This incident has shaken the railways. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}