Police zeroing in on 3 to 4 men in stoning of Rahul's train

Panipat (Haryana), Sep 16 (PTI) Police were Wednesday
zeroing in on three to four young men in connection with the
stoning of the Shatabdi train in which Congress party leader
Rahul Gandhi was travelling Tuesday night, as forensic experts
joined the probe.

Rohtak Range IGP V Kamaraj told PTI the Government
Railway Police, Panipat has registered a case under section
152 (damaging railway property) of the Indian Railways Act
against unidentified persons. Rahul(39), who was travelled in
Chair Car (C-3), was safe but a crack had developed in one of
the windowpanes of this compartment.

Police are probing all angles and investigating whether
the incident in which the Amritsar-Shatabdi express was
targeted near here was deliberate or another stray stone
throwing case, as questions were raised whether security of
the Gandhi family should be compromised in austerity drive.

Kamaraj said broken glass pieces and some stones found in
the train had been taken for forensic examination at the
Forensic Laboratory at Madhuban in Karnal district. Some
windowpanes in five coaches were in all damaged but no one ws
hurt. Rahul had boarded the train from Ludhiana (in India's
northern state of Punjab).

"As the train was moving at a slow speed, the guard of
the train reported having seen three to four young men
throwing stones at the coaches," Kamaraj said. "We have
identified the plae where the incident happended."
Kamaraj said the guard told the police that the train was
moving at a slow speed near the Anaj Mandi of Gharaunda in
Karnal district due to some repair work on the tracks on the
Karnal-Panipat section.

He said the guard has also shouted at the young men
asking them not to pelt stones, but by then the window panes
of some bogies had already suffered damage. The guard, he
said, was in his cabin at the rear end of the train.
"The guard could not clearly see the faces of the
miscreants in the darkness," the IGP said. PTI AKA
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