FIR in Gujarat against owners of buffaloes hit by Vande Bharat express train

The Railway Protection Force RPF in Gujarat has registered a case against the owners of buffaloes that were hit by the MumbaiGandhinagar Vande Bharat express in which the front portion of the train was damaged officials said on FridayThe nose cone cover of the driver coach of the semihigh speed train which got damaged after hitting the buffaloes was replaced with a new one in Mumbai the Western Railway WR said in a statementThe newlylaunched Mumbai CentralGandhinagar Vande Bharat train had hit the herd of buffaloes around 1115 am on Thursday near Ahmedabad when the train was on its way to Gandhinagar Four buffaloes were killed in the incident the officials saidThe RPF has lodged a first information report FIR against the unidentified owners of the buffaloes that came in the way of Vande Bharat train between Vatva and Maninagar railway stations in Ahmedabad WRs senior spokesperson Ahmedabad division Jitendra Kumar Jayant saidRPF inspector Pradeep Sharma posted at Vatva railway station said the FIR was filed under section 147 of the Railways Act 1989 which deals with unauthorised entry into any part of a railway and misuse of its propertyThe FIR was registered on Thursday evening in connection with the incident in which four buffaloes were killed he saidAlso Read IN PICTURES Newly launched Vande Bharat train damaged after hitting buffaloesThe railway police have not yet been able to identify the owners of the buffaloes so far and efforts are on to do so he saidThe incident had occurred in Punitnagar area near Vatva railway station on the outskirts of Ahmedabad city Sharma addedThe trains damaged nose cone cover made up of FRP fibrereinforced plastic was replaced with a new one in Mumbai the WR said in a statementThe nose cone cover of the trains driver coach along with its mounting brackets was damaged in the cattlehit incident However the vital parts of the train remained unaffected The damaged nose cone was replaced at the Coach Care Centre in Mumbai Central WRs chief public relations officer Sumit Thakur saidAfter the incident on Thursday the train had covered the distance to Gandhinagar Capital station and back to Mumbai Central without the nose cover panel as there was no damage to it trains vital parts he saidThe nose cover is designed to absorb the impact without transmitting the same to the functional parts of the train Therefore it is sacrificial by design and hence replaceable Thakur addedRailway keeps sufficient nosecones as spare he saidThe damaged nose cone was replaced in no time and the train was put back to service without any extra down time The train departed from Mumbai today without any inconvenience to the passengers he saidAccording to the official the Western Railway is taking all necessary measures to prevent such incidents in futureThe indigenously designed and manufactured semihigh speed train the third service under the Vande Bharat series was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 30 from Gandhinagar Capital and it started the commercial run from the next dayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever