Balasore train crash probe: CBI arrests three railway staff
Financial Express Mumbai|July 08, 2023
IN THE FIRST such arrests in recent years, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested three railway employees in connection with the June 2 train accident involving Coromandel Express and two other trains in Odisha's Balasore district, in which 293 people were killed.
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Balasore train crash probe: CBI arrests three railway staff

Those arrested were identified as Senior Section Engineer In-Charge (Signalling) Arun Kumar Mahanta, Senior Section Engineer Amir Khan and Technician Pappu Kumar Yadav, all posted in Balasore district.

"They have been charged under IPC sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender)," a source said.

The CBI had registered an FIR under IPC sections 337,338, 304A (causing death by negligence) and 34 (common intention), and sections 153 (unlawful and negligent action endangering lives of passengers), 154 and 175 (endangering lives) of the Railways Act, based on an initial FIR registered by the Government Railway Police at Balasore police station.

"After the June 2 incident, a six-member CBI team went to the site of the accident for examination. They also checked the panel room of the station, which displayed the signalling system and later spoke to officials in the record room," a source said.

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