Balasore train tragedy: Railway official submits dissent note

A dissent note by one of the five-member inquiry committee set up by the Railway Ministry for preliminary probe has triggered suspicion about the possibility of tampering of the record to cover-up the sequence of events leading to the major train accident in Odisha.

Soon after the accident on June 2 evening, the Indian Railways had set up a five-member inquiry committee and sought a preliminary report within 24 hours.

The preliminary report submitted on June 3 points to a faulty signal as a probable cause for the accident which claimed 288 lives and injured more than 1,000 passengers. However, one of the five also submitted a separate ‘dissent note’.