In my twelve years of working with the Indian Railways (as a vendor), this is the one anecdote that consistently surprises people:

The Railways regularly loses rolling stock. Lots of it. All the time. All over the place. There is no proper system of inventory of rakes and coaches. The railways has no idea where all its bogies are at a given point in timr. Stock taking rarely happens, if ever.

So there is nothing to see here. Its made it to the news only because the bogies were new and fancy.