LUCKNOW: Within the wee hours of Monday, Delhi sure Swatantrata Senani Categorical’s (12561) loco-engine suffered failure, after it hit a picket log mendacity on rail monitor between Ghazipur Ghat and Ghazipur Metropolis railway station. The log was dragged for practically half-a-km, earlier than the categorical got here to a halt. The prepare was cruising at 100kmph, and even after emergency brakes, it may keep away from the collision.
After the incident, junior engineer of railway, Nishant Kumar Singh lodged FIR at Sadar Kotwali of Ghazipur in opposition to an unknown individual beneath railway act part 150 (offense of maliciously trying to wreck or wrecking a prepare) and 153 (anybody who endangers the protection of an individual touring on a railway by an illegal act) and Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) part 125 (Whoever does any act so rashly or negligently as to hazard human life or the private security of others) and 285(Hazard or obstruction in public method or line of navigation).
After the incident, the categorical was delayed by two and a half hours and was hauled by one other locomotive engine, because the picket log had broken the hosepipe (braking system for the prepare which operates on air strain).
Gyanendra Nath Prasad, extra superintendent of police Ghazipur metropolis stated, “This was the second such incident in the identical space. On September10, three males had stored gravel on the rail monitor and pelted stones on Prayagraj – Balliapassengers. We had arrested them the very subsequent day. We’re probing if individuals from the identical gang had tried to sabotage the railway property as soon as once more on Monday at 3 am, or if any individual else is concerned within the mischief act.”
In a equally, nefarious act of sabotage, two males together with the son of a farmers’ chief inFarrukhabadhad been arrested by police for trying to derail the Kasganj-Farrukhabadpassenger prepare (05389), by putting apicketgo online the Kanpur-Kasganj route between Bhatasa and Shamshabad railway stations on Aug 24.
On August 17 early morning, a 22 coach Sabarmati Categorical, originating from Varanasi and heading Ahmedabad, had derailed close to Kanpur after the locomotive collided with a meter lengthy outdated rusty rail chunk.
On September 8 night, an try was made to derail and blast the Bhiwani-bound Kalindi Categorical (14117) in Kanpur Nagar district. The loco-engine of the prepare had hit an LPG stuffed gasoline cylinder positioned on the railtrack between Barrajpur and Utripura on the Kanpur-Kasganj route.. A Molotov cocktail too was discovered subsequent to the rail monitor
