India's Supreme Court has declined a bid to have the Vande Bharat train make a stop in a town in Kerala. Led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, the bench also had Justices P.S. Narasimha and Manoj Misra on it when it turned down the petition. Kerala lawyer PT Sheejish, 39, filed the petition after the Kerala High Court refused to rule on the matter. His petition alleged that Malappuram deserved to have the train stop at the Tirur Railway station because it was densely-populated, but the Indian Railways allotted Shornur station instead for political reasons.
