Patna: Police fired tear gas shells and took recourse to lathi-charge when a mob disrupted railway traffic on the outskirts of Patna, alleging a lack of an adequate number of trains for a competitive exam, a top official said on Sunday.
According to Amresh Kumar, the Inspector General in charge of the Railway Protection Force for East Central Zone, which covers a major part of Bihar, trouble erupted around midnight when "more than 200 young men, posing as students appearing for competitive exams" turned up at the Pataliputra station.