{"id":487086,"date":"2022-04-27T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T03:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487086"},"modified":"2022-04-27T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T04:18:05","slug":"decade-after-being-pushed-off-mumbai-train-bombay-hc-grants-rs-3-lakh-compensation-to-80-yr-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/decade-after-being-pushed-off-mumbai-train-bombay-hc-grants-rs-3-lakh-compensation-to-80-yr-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Decade after being pushed off Mumbai train, Bombay HC grants Rs 3 lakh compensation to 80-yr-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court recently observed that \u201clocal trains are the lifeline of the city and if in the daily chores, a passenger attempts to gain an entry into an overcrowded train and is pushed by other passengers, resulting into his fall\u201d, there is no reason why such an incident cannot fall within the ambit of \u2018untoward incident\u2019 and directed that compensation be paid by the Railways.<\/p>\n<p>The court held that \u201ccalculated risk of boarding overcrowded local train\u201d will not amount to a \u201ccriminal act\u201d under the Railways Act and directed Western Railway (WR) to compensate the 80-year-old man 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court recently observed that \u201clocal trains are the lifeline of the city and if in the daily chores, a passenger attempts to gain an entry into an overcrowded train and is pushed by other passengers, resulting into his fall\u201d, there is no reason why such an incident cannot fall within the ambit of \u2018untoward incident\u2019 and directed that compensation be paid by the Railways. The court held that \u201ccalculated risk of boarding overcrowded local train\u201d will not amount to a \u201ccriminal act\u201d under the Railways Act and directed Western Railway (WR) to compensate the 80-year-old man Rs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}