Stones pelted at Dehradun-Delhi Vande Bharat Express near Muzaffarnagar; january to seventh event

Dehradun: There was an incident of stone pelting on the newly introduced Dehradun-Delhi Vande Bharat Express train on Sunday. Railway officials said that stones were pelted at the E1 coach of Vande Bharat Express near Muzaffarnagar station on the Delhi-Dehradun route. However, officials said that no one was injured during the incident.

Delhi Division deployed Railway Protection Force (RPF) to nab the culprits. The indigenously built train was virtually flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month, which connects Dehradun to New Delhi.

Earlier, in May, a similar incident was reported from Kerala where Kerala’s first Vande Bharat Express was pelted with stones. Earlier, on April 6, a fresh incident of stone pelting was reported at Vande Bharat Express from Visakhapatnam, informed officials

Then in January, stones were pelted during the maintenance of Vande Bharat train in Visakhapatnam. The windshield of a coach was damaged near Kancharapalem in Visakhapatnam. Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Anup Kumar Sethupathi said, “Some unidentified people pelted stones at the Vande Bharat train when it reached Visakhapatnam for maintenance and running of the train.”

Earlier on March 12, an incident of stone pelting on Vande Bharat Express train from West Bengal had come to light, in which window panes of a coach of the high-speed train were damaged, Eastern Railway said in a statement. The incident took place near Farakka in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.

In January 2023, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) informed that two window panes of the Vande Bharat Express train were damaged after stones were allegedly pelted at two coaches near Phansidewa area of ​​Darjeeling district.

This was the second time in the same month that window panes of the Vande Bharat Express were smashed as stones were thrown at the train connecting Howrah to New Jalpaiguri near Malda.