Protests against the Agnipath scheme which provides for short term recruitment in the armed forces continued for the third day in Uttar Pradesh, with the protesters torching buses, damaging public properties and blocking traffic on busy roads and highways on Saturday.
The protesters set ablaze a bus and some other vehicles in Jaunpur district besides ransacking a railway station in Chandauli district.
Police sources here said that a group of protesters ransacked the offices of the station master, signal cabin and other officials at Kuchman railway station in Chandauli prompting the cops to use force to disperse them.
