Janpath Metro station shut due to protests

December 14, 2019 17:09

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on Saturday closed entry and exit gates at Janpath metro station. "As advised by Delhi Police, entry and exit at Janpath has been closed. Trains will not be halting at this station," the DMRC tweeted.

Violent protests against the new citizenship law spread to more areas in West Bengal as mobs torched buses, set afire railway property and blockaded road and rail disrupting train and vehicular movement.

In Murshidabad district, railway equipment kept at Eastern Railway's Beldanga station, which had also faced mob fury on Friday, was burnt by protestors, who also damaged a fire brigade engine and set it afire.

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