Passengers block railway traffic

The tourists felt deeply aggrieved when they discovered that the Koti station did not even have facilities like benches and tea stall at the platform.

The arrival of the overcrowded UP parcel passengers train sparked off heated exchanges between the passengers and railway officials. The latter proposed to detach the second UP parcel train locomotive and use it to haul the holiday special. This was not acceptable to the passengers of the UP parcel who threatened to block the move by lying on the tracks in front of the engine of the train. Soon it was the turn of the passengers of the Holiday Special. They lifted some railway sleepers which were lying nearby and put them in front of the locomotive, eyewitnesses said.

Sources said the situation became so tense that the Station Master, Koti, was forced to call the Railway Police from Taksal railway station.Meanwhile, the Holiday Special ultimately moved on when another train engine reached Koti at least an hour later.

deodar sleepers: The police arrested three persons and recovered 85 sleepers of Deodar which were being carried without any exports documents near the police line on Kalka-Shimla national highway under Sadar police station in this district yesterday.

District Police Chief M.L. Negi said here today that during a special checking, head constable of traffic police Vijay Kumar intercepted a truck No PH 11-3118 .

and during the inspection, found the sleepers which were without any exports documents.

The sleepers were being smuggled from Gala village of Shimla district to Jagadhari. The truck and the sleepers have been seized. Three persons have been arrested. They are Prem Chand, driver, Sanjeev, cleaner and Hem Raj, owner of the truck. Negi said that estimated cost of the seized sleepers was more than Rs two lakh. A case has been registered under 379 IPC and Section 41 42 of Forest Act.

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