New Delhi, March 27: In a bizarre incident, a passenger train bound for New Delhi Railway Station was sent to Old Delhi Railway Station by mistake! The incident that took place in the national capital on Tuesday morning is one of the rarest cases in the history of Indian Railways.

On Tuesday morning, the log operator got confused with the train numbers of the two passenger trains -- Panipat-New Delhi and Sonepat-Old Delhi. He then diverted the New Delhi bound passenger train to Old Delhi railway station, leading to a chaos. As per reports by IANS, the railway official has been identified as Aslam.

Soon after the mistake was realized, the train was immediately diverted back to New Delhi station. The Indian Railways has, however, suspended the erring official who diverted the train to a wrong station. The bizarre incident caused inconvenience to hundreds of passengers.

As per details by northern railway officials, both passenger trains reached Sadar Bazar railway station in Delhi at 7.38 am. "Due to similarities between the actual arrival time, the log operator mistakenly sent the Panipat-New Delhi passenger train to Old Delhi railway station," northern railway spokesperson Nitin Chowdhary informed.

In 2017, a similar incident had taken place where a special train which was set to go through Tundla was by mistake sent via Moradabad.

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