KRV men smash Cantt station booking counters

KRV men smash Cantt station booking counters
Friday February 15 2008 08:35 IST

Express News Service

BANGALORE: Karantaka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) activists continued targeting railway establishments across the city to show their anger against Railway Minister Lalu Prasad’s statements on Kannadigas.

Ten KRV activists ransacked the reservation counter at the Bangalore Cantonment railway station on Thursday morning. This comes a day after KRV activists ransacked the DRM’s office.

This time too, the KRV activists of the Narayana Gowda faction managed to trick the RPF and Cantonment railway station police.

They entered the reservation counter by crossing the tracks at 11 am, while two platoons of city police were waiting outside the station.

Despite a heavy police presence inside the station, they managed to slip into the queue at the reservation counters.

Police officials told this website's newspaper that 10 men in two groups came from different directions and stood in the queue in the reservation counter. All entry points were closed except for one entrance for passengers.

“The men arrived by a train, disembarked on the way and walked on the tracks to enter the platform. The moment their turn came, they barged into the office and ransacked it. They smashed seven windowpanes of the counters and destroyed the display boards too.

They attempted to break the computers, but could not. While doing so, one of the 15 railway staffers in the room was injured on the palm,” said the senior police official. The counters will be temporarily shut to carry out restoration work.

The city police who were alerted, apprehended all of them. The men arrested are, Shivakumar (22), Azghar (24), Bhaskar (24), Ramachandre Gowda (38), Nagaraju (23), Yogendra (24), Ganesh (23), Manjunath (31), Taseen Khan (27) and Jayaram Murthy (22).

A case has been registered at the Cantonment railway police station and the men have been remanded to judicial custody till Feb 21.

Meanwhile, the three KRV activists arrested on Wednesday have been remanded to judicial custody till February 28.