TOKYO (TR) – Prosecutors have announced the non-prosecution of a 25-year-old male university student from Nepal who allegedly threw trash onto a railway in Nakano Ward last year, reports the Sankei Shimbun (June 19).
At around 12:20 a.m. on December 5, Prakash Mahatala is suspected of throwing trash cans and plastic bottle collection nets that he found on the street onto the tracks of the JR Chuo-Sobu Line.
As a result, a total of nine trains, including for the Sobu and Yamanote lines, were delayed by up to 31 minutes, impacting about 5,000 people.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of endangering train traffic and disruption of business in May, the suspect denied the allegations. “I do not remember,” he told police.
On Thursday, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office announced the non-prosecution of Mahatala. No reason for the non-prosecution was given.
According to police, Mahatala picked up the trash can on the road and threw it over a two-meter fence and onto the tracks.
