# Antara Banerjee arrested after razor attack on RPF, self on train 2026-08-16T02:54:54+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets (3 source reports) Model-actress Antara Banerjee was arrested after she allegedly attacked Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel with a razor blade aboard the Aravali Express on the night of August 12. She was later released on bail after being served a notice. According to the Times of India, the dispute began when a passenger asked Banerjee, who was travelling to Surat for a web series shoot, to vacate a reserved seat. She had a sleeper-class ticket but was in an AC coach. Banerjee allegedly used abusive language, then undressed and brandished a blade, injuring RPF Assistant Sub-Inspector Yaminikant Mishra and herself. She was deboarded at Dahanu and handed to the Government Railway Police (GRP). The Borivali GRP registered an FIR on August 13 under charges including endangering safety and assault on public servants. Banerjee, a trained Kathak dancer from Kolkata, has appeared in television shows such as 'Kasautii Zindagii Kay' and 'Badho Bahu'. The Free Press Journal reports she was last seen in the 2025 show 'The Last Show'. GRP Inspector Kunda Gavade said witnesses indicated Banerjee seemed distressed over not getting an AC coach ticket. She refused to contact relatives and insisted on being arrested. The episode left passengers shaken but she calmed down after the FIR was registered. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com - timesofindia.indiatimes.com (2) - freepressjournal.in This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources. Last updated 2026-08-16T09:07:27+00:00. Tags: Antara Banerjee, Bandra-Ganganagar Aravali Express, GRP, RPF, Thane Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/thane-model-arrested-for-razor-attack-on-train-staff-over-seat/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/thane-model-arrested-for-razor-attack-on-train-staff-over-seat/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/