Three railway employees were arrested for allegedly plotting to derail a train near Kim railway station in Surat district, Gujarat

The arrested railway staffers, who worked in the maintenance department, orchestrated a plan and removed fishplates before alerting the officials. They planned it to take credit for averting a possible tragedy.

Surat: An attempted train derailment was thwarted on Saturday after miscreants removed fishplates and keys from a railway track near Kim Railway Station in Surat. According to Western Railway, Vadodara Division unidentified people opened the fishplate and some keys from the UP line track and put them on the same track near the Kim railway station.

Unknown individuals removed critical components from railway tracks near Kim Railway Station in Gujarat's Surat district.

This comes amid a spate of attempts to derail trains as several suspicious items have been found along the railway tracks across the country recently.