Five held for pelting stones at Shatabdi near Jalandhar railway station

Jalandhar, January 16

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) arrested five persons on the charges of pelting stones at coaches of Shatabdi while it left Jalandhar station for Amritsar on Saturday evening. As per information, when the train left Jalandhar city railway station for Amritsar around 9.30 pm, some local youths pelted stones on the train from an area adjacent to railway yard.

On receiving information, the RPF team immediately rushed to the spot. The police said three persons, identified as Ritik Verma, Ragavand and Deepak Kushwaha, who were involved in the incident, which they confessed too, were rounded off at the same moment.

They said due to the incident, about 15 windowpanes of the train were broken but no injury was caused to any passengers or onboard staff.

“During the interrogation it was revealed that the incident was the outcome of inter rivalry between two anti-social gangs of local area Qazimandi near the city railway station. The three accused arrested have also revealed the names of their other three accomplices of which two, Aswani and Kalia, have been arrested on Sunday, while the hunt to nab the third one is still on,” an RPF official said. “Their involvement in previous incidents of stone pelting is also being verified”, he added.

He said as of now five accused have been arrested in the case. The raids are on to arrest the absconded accused named Lucky. “Strict legal action as per the provisions of the law will be taken against the accused,” he said.