Tension prevailed at the Kanas Road railway station in Puri district after a mutilated body of a youth was recovered from the tracks on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Dhiren Kumar Routray of nearby Jagdalpur village under Delang block in the district.
Sources said Routray had left home on Saturday evening and did not return home till late night. Alleging that Routray was murdered, locals detained the Puri-Cuttack passenger train at Kanas Road railway station.
Though they informed the Station Master about the incident, he did not even bother to intimate the Government Railway Police (GRP), alleged irate local residents.
Alleging inaction on part of concerned authorities and demanding immediate arrest of the miscreants involved in the killing, locals gathered the railway station and detained the Puri-Cuttack passenger train.
Train services between Delang and Kanas were disrupted for couple of hours, sources said.
Later, rail roko agitation was suspended after GRP officials rushed to the spot and assured the locals of appropriate action. Meanwhile, investigation has started into the incident while the youth’s body was sent for post-mortem.
