Mumbai rail roko. Picture courtsey/mid-day reader

Hundreds of job-seekers staged a flash protest over issues pertaining to railway recruitment that culminated in a rail-blockade, police caning and retaliatory stone-throwing leading to a virtual paralysis of the Central Railway suburban train services here on Tuesday. For nearly three hours, the services were severely disrupted as the protestors squatted and laid on the railway tracks between Matunga and Dadar.