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

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 was hurt. Rahul had boarded the train from Ludhiana.

“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 place where the incident happened.”

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.