Shatabdi stoned, Punjab AG Anmol Rattan Sidhu escapes unhurt

Chandigarh/Panipat, July 12

The Advocate General of Punjab, Anmol Rattan Sidhu, today escaped unhurt during a stone-throwing incident on the Shatabdi Express that occurred between Babarpur and the Gharaunda railway station on the Delhi-Chandigarh rail line. He was travelling by the train. A team of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), Panipat, reached the spot and began a probe into the matter.

A planned attack

It looked like a planned attack on me, particularly when I was travelling back after a hearing in the SC in a case concerning Lawrence Bishnoi. Anmol Rattan Sidhu, Punjab AG

Talking to this correspondent, Sidhu said, “It looked like a planned attack on me, particularly when I was travelling back after a hearing in the Supreme Court in a case concerning gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Going by incidents of gang wars, I have serious apprehensions of gangsters attempting to silence all voices against them.”

He said the police reached the spot and took his version. “I expect a thorough probe,” he said. Shrawan Kumar, Inspector, RPF, Panipat, said a team of the RPF had been sent to the spot, which was around 25 km from Panipat towards Karnal.

“Prima facie, the stone-throwing incident does not seem to be an intentional or targeted attack,” he said. It was unfortunate that the Punjab Advocate General was sitting in the coach and the window was stoned, he said.

“The glass of the Shatabdi Express is double layered. The outer layer was broken after it was stoned while the internal layer was completely intact,” Shrawan said.