PATNA, June 14 -- The rail police and railway protection force (RPF) on Sunday resorted to lathicharge and tear gas shells to disperse hundreds of aspirants of the Excise Constable recruitment examination at Patna's Pataliputra railway station. The aspirants were disrupting rail operations and pelting stones towards compartments as they were unable to sit for the exam and blamed it on the mismanagement of the railways and lack of special trains.

A number of aspirants are reported to have been injured, with six of them being arrested, according to railway officers and local police, while around 500 of them have been booked.

Patna Zone IG Jitendra Rana said that no serious injuries occurred during the incident. He said that an FIR will be...