Students stage rail roko after RPF detains friend at Avadi

CHENNAI: Tension prevailed at Avadi railway station after a group of students from Presidency college staged a rail roko after the personnel of railway protection force (RPF)detained one of their friends for pulling the chain for the train to halt.
The students were reportedly celebrating their friend’s birthday on the moving train (Velachery to Arakkonam). They had brought a cake on the train. While some of them pulled the train to a halt near Avadi railway station, the RPF personnel detained the birthday boy.