It had a great run yesterday too with no VB in service. It was allowed to go ahead of Raj till NDLS. SBC Raj was following AP within a station or 2 all the way. That is the intended schedule.
CR is simply killing this train holding it in Betul till VB passes and also SBC Raj. Not sure how CR comes up with this stupid logic even though AP has no stoppages and earlier arrival in BPL, while VB and Raj both have stops in ET. Pure stupidity on CR's part.