Four migrant workers were arrested on the charge of raping a minor girl from Uttar Pradesh and trying to abandon her at the Kozhikode railway station on Friday night.
It was officials of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) who first noticed the 16-year-old girl arguing with the four men, and they alerted the Kasaba police.
RPF sources said the four Uttar Pradesh natives — Ikarar Alam, 18, Ajaj, 25, Shakeel Shah, 42, and Irshad, 23, — who met the girl during a train journey to Kozhikode had taken her to their camp near the Palayam bus stand after persuading her to get down at the Palakkad railway station on Thursday.