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A gatekeeper deployed astatine a level-crossing gross betwixt Pudukottai and Tirumayam railway stations successful Pudukottai territory was allegedly attacked by a man, reportedly successful an inebriated state, connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) evening. The work gatekeeper Dheeraj Kumar was taken to the Pudukottai Government Medical College Hospital aboriginal by the railway and Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel.
The incidental occurred astatine astir 6.20 p.m. erstwhile the gatekeeper closed the non-interlocked level-crossing gross No. 384 betwixt Pudukottai and Thirumayam on the Karaikudi-Tiruchi electrified wide gauge section, for the Rameswaram-Tiruchi explicit (Train No. 16850) to walk done astatine that time.
Railway Protection Force (RPF) sources said 2 persons connected a motorycle, suspected to beryllium successful an inebriated state, came to the spot and reportedly asked the gatekeeper to unfastened the gate. One of them, aboriginal identified arsenic Karthi, allegedly verbally assaulted and attacked the gatekeeper with a tiny knife, causing a flimsy bleeding wounded to his hand. The duo past sped away.
GRP unit from Karaikudi and field-level railway officials from Pudukottai and Madurai arrived astatine the spot and took the injured gatekeeper to the hospital. GRP, Karaikudi, registered a lawsuit nether assorted provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and arrested 1 accused, Karthi, 34, of Pudukottai territory in connection with the attack. Further probe is nether way.
