Commuters travelling from Delhi Metro especially on the Blue Line connecting Dwarka sector 21 and Vaishali-Noida Electronic City had a terrible day as the services on the line were disrupted for more than an hour due to breakage of Over Head electricity (OHE) wire between Rajiv Chowk and RK Ashram Metro section (Up Line-going towards Dwarka).

The metro users travelling between on the Blue Line, flooded with complaints and anger in the Twitter handle of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

"Please save me. I am claustrophobic and the metro came stand still in the tunnel with all the power light off," tweeted Ateeba, a metro user.

While, the DMRC said, "Train services on Line-3/4(Blue) were regulated from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM today between Karol Bagh and Indraprashta section. This was necessitated to undertake the repair of some broken strands of OHE wire between Rajiv Chowk and R K Ashram Metro section (Up Line-going towards Dwarka) which are suspected to be broken due to some foreign material falling on OHE." Delhi metro added that, the exact reason shall be worked out during night after completion of train services.  "As a result, trains were moved in the affected portion with a restricted speed of 5KMPH to avoid damage to the pantographs of the trains, resulting into delay for the following trains. To avoid impact on the entire Blue Line, train movement was regulated intermittently through loops also- between Karol Bagh to Dwarka -21 section and Indraprastha to Noida/Vaishali section," said DMRC in a statement. 

DMRC said the OHE maintenance team carried out the necessary repair work from 3:52 PM to 4:00 PM thereby, normalizing the affected OHE portion. Regular train movement is also restored on entire line since then. The trains services were halted at around 3 pm and was resumed later after an hour at around 4 pm.