Cops, locals come to aid of UK couple stranded at station

Living up to the motto of atithi devo bhava, local policemen and residents came to the

help of a tourist-couple from the UK, who had got down at wrong train station in Maharashtra, and ferried them to their

hotel on late Thursday night. The couple from Manchester was supposed to get down

from their train at Aurangabad in central Maharashtra, but alighted by mistake at Lasur station, around 35km before their

actual destination, officials said. However, volunteers of the Railway Pravasi Sena (RPS),

with help from the local police, accompanied the couple and dropped them safely at their hotel in Ellora, around 40km from

Aurangabad, they said. Adam McBride (60) and his wife boarded Ajanta Express

from Manmad at around 8.45 pm on Thursday. The train was supposed to reach Aurangabad at around 10.45 pm.

But the couple got down at Lasur, located in rural Aurangabad, which has no regular late night transport service

for either Ellora or Aurangabad. "The couple looked a little anxious when the train

left at 10 pm and with hardly any passenger at the railway station. A resident of Lasur, Piyush Mutha, saw them and asked

about their problem. "Mutha conveyed to me the plight of the couple after

which and I went to the railway station in 10 minutes as I am a resident of Lasur Station," RPS president Santosh Somani

told PTI on Friday. "The next train to Aurangabad was not on time and

there was no other transport option for travelling to Aurangabad at that time.

"I contacted Superintendent of Police Mokshada Patil and she conveyed the matter to Sillegaon police station

officials. A police team reached Lasur and we decided to take the couple to Ellora directly in a police vehicle," Somani

added. "While in the police vehicle, the couple looked

worried and continuously monitored their destination through GPS on their mobile phone," he said.

Once the tourists found themselves near their hotel, they looked happy and relaxed, Somani said.

"We dropped them to their hotel at 12.05 am," Police Inspector Syed Shaukat Ali said.

"They thanked our team for this gesture," Ali added. PTI AW

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