New Delhi: Union Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore has asked railways to extend free passes to recipients of Sena Medal, saying that while the awardees of police medal get this facility, those conferred with the military honour, which is higher in precedence, have been 'strangely' left out.

In a letter to his senior colleague, Rail Minister Suresh Prabhu, Rathore, who himself served in the army, said that the facility of free rail passes was first initiated for the recipients of Param Vir Chakra till Shaurya Chakra, that is till Article 15 of Presidential Order of Precedence for Medals and Awards.