Window panes of six coaches of the Amritsar-New Delhi Shatabdi Express carrying 39-year-old Gandhi, who had boarded at Ludhiana, were damaged in the stoning.
Three teenaged boys have been detained by police in connection with the stoning of the Shatabdi express in which Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was travelling on Tuesday night.
"We have detained three teenagers aged 14, 16 and 19 on suspicion and we are questioning them," Rohtak Range IGP, V Kamraj told PTI today. The trio hails from the area in the district where the stoning incident took place.
"Their questioning is going on and let's see if it corroborates with our investigation in the case so far," he said.
Window panes of six coaches of the Amritsar-New Delhi Shatabdi Express carrying 39-year-old Gandhi, who had boarded at Ludhiana, were damaged in the stoning, including the one in which the Congress leader was travelling. However, no one was hurt.
The Government Railway Police, Panipat had registered a case under section 152 (damaging railway property) of the Indian Railways Act against unidentified persons.
Broken glass pieces and some stones found in the train have already been sent for forensic examination to the Forensic Laboratory at Madhuban in Karnal district. 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.
According to Kamaraj, the guard of the train told the police that the train was moving at a slow speed near Anaj Mandi in Gharaunda area of Karnal district due to some repair
work on the tracks on the Karnal-Panipat section.
He has said the guard 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 h is cabin at the rear end of the train. The guard has said that he could not clearly see the faces of the youth due to darkness.
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