{"id":15732,"date":"2017-08-25T23:55:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15732"},"modified":"2017-08-25T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:57:09","slug":"lahore-delhi-bus-service-suspended-after-deadly-riots-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15732","title":{"rendered":"Lahore-Delhi bus service suspended after deadly riots in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI, August 25 (TNS):<\/strong> The Delhi Transport Corporation on Friday suspended its Delhi-Lahore bus service in wake of the violence after self-style godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim was convicted in a rape case.<\/p>\n<p>A DTC official said the services have been suspended also because buses were being targeted in arson and violence in Haryana, Punjab and Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Delhi-Lahore bus service have been suspended because it passes through violence hit Haryana and Punjab,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>DTC spokesperson Sanjay Saxena said the Delhi-Lahore bus services would be remain suspended next few days as well.<\/p>\n<p>A decision to resume the services will be taken after normalcy is restored, another DTC official said A bus was torched allegedly by Gurmeet Ram Rahim&#8217;s followers in northeast Delhi&#8217;s Loni Chowk.<\/p>\n<p>A fire also engulfed two coaches of the Rewa Express stationed at the Anand Vihar Railway Station here. Railway officials said it was not immediately clear if it was a case of arson and that investigations were underway.<\/p>\n<p>A special CBI court in Panchkula in Haryana convicted the 50-year-old self-styled godman in the 2002 rape case, triggering widespread violence and arson by his supporters in Punjab and Haryana.<\/p>\n<p>At least 30 people were killed and more than 250 injured in the violence that left a trail of destruction and vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, August 25 (TNS): The Delhi Transport Corporation on Friday suspended its Delhi-Lahore bus service in wake of the violence after self-style godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim was convicted in a rape case. A DTC official said the services have been suspended also because buses were being targeted in arson and violence in Haryana, Punjab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[157,589],"class_list":["post-15732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","tag-lahore","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15734,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732\/revisions\/15734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}