Overview
- Justice Jitendra Jain quashed the Railway Claims Tribunal’s 2016 order that had denied relief for lack of official records.
- The ruling accepts hospital history, postmortem findings and surrounding circumstances as proof of an untoward incident under the beneficial Railways Act.
- Compensation is set at Rs 4 lakh with 6% interest from September 2008, payable up to a statutory cap of Rs 8 lakh.
- Western Railway’s objection citing no immediate station report or ticket proof was rejected.
- Payment to Jaideep Tambe’s parents is due within eight weeks; the 17-year-old fell from a crowded train between Prabhadevi and Lower Parel during a Ganesh festival visit.