Bombay HC: Trying to board crowded local train not ‘criminal act’
HOLDING THAT “calculated risk of boarding overcrowded local train will not amount to criminal act” under the Railways Act, the Bombay High Court recently directed Western Railway (WR) to compensate an 80-year-old man with Rs 1.5 lakh for the loss he faced after a fall from train in 2011 along with Rs 1.61 lakh towards his actual medical expenses.
“Here is a person who is undertaking travel everyday for attending his work and merely because no ticket is found in his pocket, will not amount to him being classified as ‘not a bona fide passenger’,” a single-judge bench of Justice Bharati H Dangre held.
