{"id":487138,"date":"2022-04-27T10:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487138"},"modified":"2022-04-27T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:21:03","slug":"railways-must-pay-compensation-if-a-person-falls-off-crowded-train-and-suffers-injuries-bombay-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-must-pay-compensation-if-a-person-falls-off-crowded-train-and-suffers-injuries-bombay-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways must pay compensation if a person falls off crowded train and suffers injuries: Bombay HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court has observed that local trains are the lifeline of Mumbai and if a person falls and suffers injuries while trying to board an overcrowded train, it will fall within the ambit of an &#8220;untoward incident&#8221; and compensation will have to be paid by the Railways. A single bench of Justice Bharati Dangre directed the Western Railways to pay Rs 3 lakh to a 75-year-old man who suffered injuries to his leg after falling off an overcrowded local train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court has observed that local trains are the lifeline of Mumbai and if a person falls and suffers injuries while trying to board an overcrowded train, it will fall within the ambit of an &#8220;untoward incident&#8221; and compensation will have to be paid by the Railways. A single bench of Justice Bharati Dangre directed the Western Railways to pay Rs 3 lakh to a 75-year-old man who suffered injuries to his leg after falling off an overcrowded local train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487138","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}