The driver and co-driver of Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express, K. Anand Rao and K. G. Rao went missing at West Bengal's Jhargram, around 200 km southeast of Kolkata. The train got stuck at Jhargram, where activists of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities were demonstrating between Jhargram and its next station Sardia, blocking the railroad at around 2.30 pm.

While Union Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee said in Delhi that it was a CPI (M) ploy to disrupt railways activities and malign her, CPI (Maoist) leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji denied that his guerrillas were involved in the incident.

South Eastern Railways spokesman Soumitra Majumdar said that they were able to contact the two drivers sometime after the train was stopped around 3.30 pm. "Since then there was no more contact. We know that they were forced down form the train but we're not sure if they have been abducted and taken away somewhere else," he said.

He further informed that while all train movements on the route have been stopped for the time being, railways authorities were awaiting clearance from the police.