senior officer of the Government Railway Police (GRP) said. ( Watch )
"We questioned many people yesterday and based on information and eyewitness accounts, five persons have been arrested today," GRP commissioner A K Sharma said.
Sharma, however, refused to comment on whether the five arrested persons were affiliated to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) led by Raj Thackeray.
They are likely to be produced in a court later today.
On Wednesday, the GRP, which takes orders from the railway ministry, detained 20 people in connection with Tuesday’s violence.
The Maharashtra government has tried to downplay the lynching of the UP labourer, saying it wasn’t a hate crime against north Indians, amid reports that some of them could be from Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
The victim, Dharamdev Rai (25), was on a Victoria Terminus-bound local train from Khopoli along with his three friends on Tuesday when a group of 10-12 Marathi-speaking youths attacked them. The four were on their way to catch a train home to UP for the Diwali holidays.
As the incident — coming close on the heels of Mumbai cops gunning down Patna man Rahul Raj in a BEST bus — increased pressure on the Maharashtra government to stop violence against north Indians , deputy CM R R Patil said initial reports suggested there was nothing to indicate that the attackers targeted the men for being north Indians.
”When we catch the culprits, we will find the real reason for the murder. But initial reports suggest that nobody shouted any slogan in support of Marathis or any outfit or any leader,’’ said Patil. He, however, announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the kin of the victim.
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