Overview
- Justice Nitin Borkar directed police not to take coercive action against Vishal Dolas and Samar Yadav until December 9 during their anticipatory bail hearing.
- The Thane GRP has named the two Central Railway engineers in an FIR under culpable homicide provisions, alleging failures in track maintenance before the June 9 accident.
- An independent VJTI assessment cited rail gaps, unwelded joints and cant discrepancies as likely triggers for a jolt, while a Central Railway committee blamed overcrowding and footboard travel with protruding backpacks.
- The Thane sessions court on November 13 rejected anticipatory bail, calling the tragedy avoidable and describing the backpack explanation as unreasonable.
- The prosecutor told the High Court the investigation is ongoing, as the defence highlights a five-month delay in the FIR and notes hundreds of trains passed the section safely before and after the incident.