The ATS has arrested Hussain alias Shahid, another accused involved in the stone-pelting incident on the Vande Bharat Express in Varanasi. He was apprehended in Mughalsarai after extensive questioning at the Varanasi office. Hussain, originally from Bhagalpur, Bihar, was residing in a rented accommodation in Mughalsarai. He confessed that he and...
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his accomplices used to snatch mobile phones and other valuables from passengers near the windows when the train slowed down after stone pelting. He has revealed the names of other accomplices, who are being investigated. ATS officers confirmed that Pawan Kumar Sahani, another accused, has already been arrested. The group had pelted stones at the Vande Bharat Express near Vyasanagar while it was traveling from Ayodhya to Varanasi via Lucknow, causing damage to the C-5 coach's window. After confirming Hussain's involvement, the ATS Varanasi unit handed him over to the Railway Protection Force at Vyasanagar Chandauli.