The CBI has filed a chargesheet against three arrested railway officials for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and destruction of evidence in connection with the June 2 Balasore (Odisha) train accident.
The CBI had arrested the three officials — Senior Section Engineer (Signals) Arun Kumar Mahanta, Section Engineer Amir Khand and Technician Pappu Kumar, all posted in Balasore district — on July 7 in connection with its probe into the accident involving three trains that left 296 dead and 1,200 injured.
The mishap took place on June 2, when the Coromandel Express crashed into a stationary freight train at the Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore,
