Summary:
We don’t understand why people are pelting stones at Vande Bharat Express. Local administration must help us find some solution to the menace.”The first stone pelting took place when the train was heading to Varanasi on Sunday morning. What kind of pleasure they derive by damaging the train. Fortunately, no passenger was hurt in the stone pelting, but most of them were scared and shocked.Soon after the incident, chief public relations officer of North Central Railway zone Gaurav Krishan Bansal said, “We are just helpless. At 10:35 am, close to Sirsaul railway station, which is 23 km away from Kanpur city, seven to eight youths hurled stones at the train, damaging nine windowpanes of eight coaches.After the incident, the train staff alerted the control room, and local GRP and RPF squads were dispatched to the spot..