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CBI arrests 3 Rly employees over Balasore train tragedy

July 08, 2023

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Hindustan Times

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested three railway employees for “their action that led to the June 2 train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district”, according to officials familiar with the matter, who said new charges related to “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” and “destruction of evidence” have now been invoked

- Neeraj Chauhan

CBI arrests 3 Rly employees over Balasore train tragedy

NEW DELHI: The federal agency is probing the criminal angle into the crash that involved three trains and has claimed the lives of 293 people in what was the deadliest Railways tragedy in three decades.

The arrested employees have been identified as Arun Kumar Mahanta, senior section engineer (Signals), Mohammad Amir Khan, section engineer, and Pappu Kumar, technician, who are all posted in Balasore district and were taken into custody by CBI’s special crimes zone unit after questioning.

The agency did not divulge the precise role they are being prosecuted for but an officer aware of the matter said “they were arrested for their action which led to the horrific incident”.

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