Mohali, July 19 -- In a serious breach of protocol and safety, a team of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), along with the railways' engineering wing, on Friday arrested six workers and booked a contractor for damaging railway property during the widening work of an alternate route to the Chandigarh International Airport.

The workers were booked for unauthorised excavation on railway land, which resulted in damage to the underground internet and electrical cables, thereby disrupting communication systems at the railway station. The RPF arrested the driver of a JCB machine, an electrical contractor, and several of his workers. The JCB and electrical cutters used in the digging were also impounded.

The engineering (electrical) wing of th...