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CHANDIGARH: It was a fun competition among a group of juveniles high on addictive correction fluid that gave passengers of three trains a harrowing time early this week. The contest was: who will break the maximum number of windows of Duronto Express and Jan Shatabdi.Questioning of two juveniles of 18 has revealed that they sniffed correction fluid before going to the railway track and frantically pelted trains with stones to win the contest.The UT Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested two of them in as many days and sent them to a juvenile home in Ambala district on Thursday. SHO of GRP police station inspector Rajesh Kumari said, "Two juveniles have confessed, in front of their parents, to inhaling the fluid and attacking the trains on June 18 and 19. UT police have been apprised of it."Sources in police said the arrested juveniles were school drop-outs and 13 to 15 years old. The group of juveniles had attacked three trains on two consecutive days. In the first incident of June 18, the driver of Jan Shatabdi, Ram Narayan Meena, was injured. A case was registered under the Railways Act. The involvement of juveniles has prompted railway and UT police to organize counselling sessions for them.