News agency ANI reported that the three Muslim men were attacked by six or seven men while deboarding their train reportedly after an argument over covering their heads. Reports said the train was about to reach the village Aheda in Baghpat when the Muslim men started to wear their shoes to get down. It was at that moment that they were attacked with iron rods and an ice pick. "The police have registered an FIR against the unidentified attackers," Northern Railway's public relations officer Nitin Chaudhary told ANI. Baghpat Kotwali incharge B Kumar said that the case was being transferred to the Railway police.

Source: India Today November 23, 2017 09:33 UTC