HC raps railways over compensation fight

The Indian Railways should not have forced the family of its own employee to litigate for compensation, the Bombay High Court observed while directing payment in a case involving the employee's death after falling from a crowded train near Virar in 2010.

- Urvi Mahajani

Justice Jitendra Jain, on Monday, allowed the appeal filed by the deceased employee's family, Nagmani Ramnna Burumuri and Kumari Preety Ramnna Burumuri, challenging the 2015 order of the Railway Claims Tribunal, Mumbai, which had rejected their compensation claim of %4 lakh.

Justice Jain said the railways should have granted compensation on their own. “Such matters where the employees of the railways themselves have died because of the accident should have never landed in this Court,” he said.