5 held for throwing stones on Vande Bharat Express in Chhattisgarh days before flagging off by PM Modi
New Delhi/IBNS: The police arrested five people for allegedly throwing stones at the Vande Bharat Express train during its trial run in Chhattisgarh, media reports said on Sunday.
The train, scheduled on route Chhattisgarh's Durg to Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam, was set to be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.
According to reports, stones were hurled at the Vande Bharat train at the Bagbahara railway station while it was returning from Visakhapatnam Friday morning, reports said.
No injuries were reported in the incident.
However, the multi-layered windows of the three coaches of the train were damaged.
The accused have been identified as Shiv Kumar Baghel, Devendra Kumar, Jeetu Pandey, Sonwani, and Arjun Yadav.
An FIR has been registered against the accused, who are residents of Bagbahara, under the Railways Act, 1989.
Besides Durg to Visakhapatnam Vande Bharat train, PM Modi is scheduled to flag off India's first Vande Metro from Gujarat's Bhuj to Ahmedabad and the first 20-coach Vande Bharat train from Varanasi to Delhi on Monday.
He will also launch Vande Bharat trains on the following routes - Tatanagar to Patna, Nagpur to Secunderabad, Kolhapur to Pune, Agra Cantt to Banaras, and Pune to Hubballi.
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