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SME Times News Bureau | 19 Feb, 2018
Thousands of youths on Sunday staged violent protests and indulged in
arson at three railway stations in Bihar against reducing the age limit
for recruitment in the Railways, leading to services being disrupted for
some time, police said.
The protests against the age limit
reduction for Group D recruitment and reserving most of the seats for
ITI holders in the Railways came two days after hundreds of unemployed
youths protested at Ara train station.
On Sunday, the protesters,
mostly job aspirants, demonstrated at Rafiganj railway station in
Aurangabad district, Athamgola railway station in Patna district and
Hajipur railway station in Vaishali district.
They forcibly
stopped trains, blocked tracks, torched vehicles and threw stones at
police officials in Rafiganj and Athamgola railway stations.
The
protesters shouted slogans against the BJP-led Central government and
displayed posters that read "hum pakoda nahi bechenge", "protest against
surgical strike on railway job aspirants", "notify more jobs in
railways".
The protest left half a dozen police officials injured
and services on the Gaya-Mughalsarai section of the East Central
Railway disrupted for hours.
"Some pelted police with stones when
officers tried to disperse them in which nearly a dozen of them were
injured," a district police official said.
The police opened fire to disperse the protesters in Rafiganj after they tried to ransack the railway station.
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