Window panes of the Howrah-certain Vande Bharat Express had been shattered on Monday after a few anti-social factors pelted stones on the newly-released educate close to Malda’s Kumarganj station in West Bengal. The incident comes 4 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off India’s seventh Vande Bharat Express from Howrah en course to New Jalpaiguri Junction.
The explicit educate connecting South Bengal to North Bengal become officially released on December 30, 2022, from Howrah withinside the presence of Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. It become on its first industrial run on the time of the incident.
Commenting at the incident, the Eastern Railways said, “On 02.01.23 at approximately 17.50 hrs, data obtained from on obligation T.E birthday birthday celebration of T.N.22302 Vande Bharat Exp. become pelted with stones in instruct no. C13 after crossing Kumarganj station below IPF Samsi. As a result, the door glass were given cracked. The educate escort contained 01 ASI in conjunction with 04 body of workers with Arms and Ammn.of RPF POST D-Shed MLDT.” The incident induced panic amongst passengers onboard.
Rintu Ghosh, a resident of Dankuni, spoke to India Today approximately the incident and said, “They pelted stones from the outdoor. It become shocking. The glass were given shattered via way of means of the impact. It befell simply earlier than the educate reached Malda Station. Thankfully, the chew of stone did now no longer harm any of the passengers. We are shocked.”
It remains uncertain who threw stones withinside the darkish and for what purpose. Meanwhile, railway government have introduced a radical research into the complete incident. Stones had been pelted from outdoor at Kumarganj at the same time as the educate become moving,” a Railway body of workers onboard Vande Bharat Express, Asif Khan informed India Today.