Two minors nabbed in connection with removal of rail clips from track in Narmada district

Rajpipala: Police has nabbed two minor boys in connection with the removal of around a hundred rail clips from a track near Amletha district in Narmada distict.

They had fled the scene when the gangman in the area noticed them.
The duo during primary interrogation has claimed that they were removed the clips to sell them to scrap merchants to earn money for enjoyment,however, they were being interrogated deeply.

A possible train mishap was averted in Narmada district of Gujarat when over a hundred elastic rail clips across three kms of tracks, was found missing removed during track inspection two days ago by the gangmen near Amletha village railway station in Narmada district on the Vadodara Railway Division of Western Railway.A major train mishap was thus averted by replacing them in time.

106 elastic rail clips – used with concrete sleepers to fix rail tracks tightly on both sides — were removed within a distance of around three kms between Amletha and Taropa railway stations in Narmada district under Western Railway zonr. Corrective measures were taken immediately and the track made safe before the passing of a train in the evening. However Ankleshwar-Rajpipla passenger train is the only train that passes through this route, one going from Rajpipla to Ankleshwar in the morning and another coming from the other side in the evening.

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