By IANS,
New Delhi : Services on the Indraprastha-Yamuna Bank section of Delhi Metro’s line III were affected for nearly six-and-half hours Tuesday as a section of signalling cable was stolen from the tracks between these stations Monday night, a Delhi Metro statement said.
“A 108 metre-long section of the signalling cable was stolen last (Monday) night, which caused disruption in Metro services from Indraprastha to Yamuna Bank Metro station (on line III – Yamuna Bank to Dwarka Sector-9) from 6 a.m. to 12:18 p.m. Monday,” a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) statement said.
“As a result of this, trains were operated on manual mode performing single line operations from Indraprastha to Yamuna Bank Metro station. Due to manual operations, the trains were run with a frequency of 10-20 minutes in this stretch,” it added.
DMRC further said that to maintain routine frequency of five minutes on entire line-3, short loop services were introduced between Indraprastha to Dwarka Sector -9.
“All other lines remained unaffected by this incident and train services were normal there,” the statement added.
Delhi Police have registered a case and are investigating.
The Yamuna Bank-Dwarka line is one of the busiest Metro routes in the capital. Over 850,000 people commute on the Delhi Metro’s three routes that run between southwest, east, north and central Delhi presently.