Rail Roko: 27 cases booked against agitators

Hyderabad, Jul 14 : As many as 27 cases were registered and 598 people arrested during the 12-hrs rail roko agitation that started from 0600 hours, called by Telagana Political JAC in Telangana region today.In a release, Director General (Law and Order) M Ratan said the local police booked 18 cases under preventive sections and took the agitators in custody while the GRP and the RPF booked nine cases for trespassing and obstructing movement of trains.The overall situation remained under control, he said, adding that the deloyment of the GRP and RPF was made to ensure safety of railway tracks and movement of trains since last evening. Because of the measures taken in advance, the agitators were unable to stop Hyderabad-Nanded Passenger train at Maraspet in Medak District last night and as they were taken into custody and the train could reach Hyderabad, he claimed.The South Central Railways(SCR) had rescheduled more than two dozen trains and had made arrangements for transportation of stranded passengers by APRTC buses from the places where some of the trains had been terminated after 0600 hours while the MMTS services between Secunderabad and Lingampally were operated during the day,About 17 passenger trains and 12 goods trains were detained for different spans of time by the agitators while most of these could reach their destinations with some delay and some long distance trains like Ernakulam-Patna Express, Darbhanga-Bangalore Express and Nizamuddin-VSP Link Express had to wait at Kazipet, Yeluguru and Nekonda, respectively, till evening, when normal running of trains resumed, he added.
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