For the first time in the history of Mumbai’s suburban railway network, a motorman and guard of a local train were booked by police for “causing death by negligance” after two women died followed a freak mishap. The services between Virar and Churchgate stations on the Western Railway was badly affected because agitated public squatted along the tracks between Nalasopara and Virar stations – blocking the morning peak hour services.
The deceased were identified as Shanti Kumbhar and Sampada Tambe, both of them were in their early twenties. Both of them are residents of Virar and worked in Vasai.
Namankit More, the Senior Inspector of Vasai division of Government Railway Police, told this Sakaal Times correspondent at Virar station that provisions of section 304 (a) (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal code are being invoked against the motorman and guard. The role of the local station master are also being investigated by police and they would be called for investigations.
Other sections imposed on them are 166 (public servant disobeying law with intent to cause injuries to any person), 168 (public servant unlawfully engaging in trade) and 34(act done by several persons in furtherace of common intention) of the IPC. The CR number is 06/2010.
Eyewitness and police officials said that there was delay on part of railway officials in providing relief to the two lady commuters who were injured between the Nalasopara and Virar stations. While the public demanded that they be hospitalied in Nalasopara, the driver and guard took them to Virar. “There too there was a delay of 15 minutes,” said a police official, adding that one of the railway employees said that in case private ambulance has to be summoned, they would require to shell out Rs 1,000 as charges for the ambulance – and they insisted that they should wait for the government ambulance to come.
Western Railway officials said: “A trespassing case occurred between Nalasopara and Virar on down local line when the motorman of VR-115 Dn local noticed two women aged about 23 years and 21 years, walking on the tracks. In spite of alerting the women by pressing the hooter, they could not get off the track in time. The train was stopped from 8.27 hrs to 8.41 hrs and both the women were taken to Virar in the same train. While one died the other was injured. The injured was rushed to the government hospital and later shifted to Bhagwati Hospital.”
Meanwhile, as the train reached about 15 minutes late at Virar, there was a public agitation due to which the services couldn’t be run from Platform No.1, 2 & 3 from 9.05 hrs to 11.15 hrs. Meanwhile, trains were run from other platforms. However, the services couldn’t be run from these platforms also from 10.10 hrs.
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