MARGAO: Tension rent the air around 12.15 am as the police moved in on the tracks apparently to evict the protesters.
But the protesters remained unfazed and continued to occupy the tracks. Slogan shouting intensified after the police made their presence felt on the tracks.
South Goa district police Chief Pankaj Kumar Singh, Dysp Sahil Narangal and a strong pose of policemen, including lady policemen, descended on the tracks.
MARGAOPeople's power reigned supreme at Chandor on Sunday night as thousands of protesters forced the railways to backtrack on the plan to lay a double track at the level crossing at midnight.While the railway officials and workers did not turn up to execute the work to lay the double track, thousands of protesters laid a siege on the railway track at the level crossing since midnight.A sea of protesters, including men, women and children occupied the railway tracks on both…
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