Rajdhani halts for mystery woman

October 21, 2016 09:40

A Rajdhani train made an unscheduled stop at Muri, 60km from here, this morning apparently to allow on board a passenger who, insiders said, was the daughter of a senior official of Ranchi railway division.

Curiously, no one in the railway hierarchy in Ranchi seemed to know that the 22824 express to Bhubaneswar from New Delhi was not just halted for three minutes at the junction, but also rerouted from yard tracks meant for galloping trains to tracks along platform three. Read more

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