Bhubaneswar, June 19: The family members of Padma Lochan Behera, who was drugged and looted on a train on Friday night, ran from pillar to post to lodge a police complaint.

Twenty-year-old, Behera, a student of the government run Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Puri, was robbed off his mobile phone and Rs 10,000 in cash after being drugged by a co-passenger, while returning to the temple town from Jajpur on Friday.

His family members went from one police station to the other today to lodge a complaint. First, they went to the Airfield police station. However, the Airfield police refused to receive the complaint saying that the incident occurred in a moving train and hence they must approach the railway police.

Later in the afternoon the family members went to the government railway police, Bhubaneswar, to lodge a complaint. But there, too, they had to face disappointment.

The local government railway police officials told them that since the victim was found lying unconscious on Sakhigopal railway platform, the complaint should be lodged with Khurda government railway police, which has jurisdiction over Sakhigopal railway station.

“As this area does not come under our jurisdiction, we told them to lodge a complaint with the Khurda government railway police,” said Smruti Ranajan Kar, inspector-in-charge of government railway police, Bhubaneswar.

“The Airfield police told us to go to government railway police, Bhubaneswar, but they asked us to go and lodge the complaint with Khurda government railway police. We do not know whether they will receive the complaint or send us somewhere else again,” said Pramila Behera, the boy’s mother.

Behera had gone to visit a friend in Jajpur district on Friday. He had had boarded Puri- Howrah express from Jajpur station. There was another person in his compartment. At Jenapur station the man went to buy biscuits and he offered one to Behera who became senseless after eating it.

Behera’s family on Saturday received a phone call informing them about the incident. “The caller asked us to rush to the Sakhigopal railway station. We found our son unconscious there,” said Pramila.