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In a series of trail derailment incidents, an attempt was made to overturn a train in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior by placing iron rods on the railway tracks. The Railways and Gwalior Police have started an investigation into the matter. The police have registered a case against unidentified miscreants. 

The iron rods were found lying on the goods track near Gwalior Birlanagar station late at night. A goods train was passing through the same railway track at a speed of 12 kilometres. However, the driver stopped the goods train timely. 

A similar incident took place in Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli last week after loco pilots of a passenger train spotted a heap of sand dumped on the railway track. The incident reportedly took place near Raghuraj Singh station in Raebareli. 

Devendra Bhadoria, the Station House Officer (SHO) overseeing the investigation, reported that a small pile of soil was dumped directly onto the tracks, causing an obstruction. "A small pile of soil was dumped on the railway track, which caused a shuttle train from Raibareli to be stopped,” Bhadoria was quoted as saying by the news agency PTI.

In another incident, glass windows of the Patna-Tatanagar Vande Bharat Express were damaged when stones were hurled by miscreants between Yadgram-Sharmatand station between Gaya and Koderma of Dhanbad Railway Division.

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The sound of stones hitting the glass created a sense of alarm, prompting passengers to scramble for safety as fear spread through the coaches. 

Earlier in September, the Government Railway Protection (GRP) in Punjab’s Bathinda recovered nine iron rods from the tracks of the Delhi-Bathinda Express, in an attempt to avert a major train derailment.