In the Balasore train tragedy investigation, the CBI detains three railroad employees.

In connection with the Odisha train tragedy that claimed the lives of over 290 persons, the CBI detained three railway employees.
               FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows derailed coaches after trains collided in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha

Three railroad employees were detained by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday in connection with the tragic triple train accident in Odisha that claimed the lives of over 290 people.

The three employees who were detained for working with the railroads are senior section engineer Arun Kumar Mahanta, section engineer Mohammad Amir Khan, and technician Pappu Kumar. The central investigation agency stated that the accused were detained in accordance with sections 304 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code for "their action which led to the incident," without going into further detail as to what that action was.

After a month-long inquiry, the CBI has added two strict sections to its case pertaining to culpable homicide and evidence destruction. In its first information report (FIR), which was a re-registration of the case brought by the Odisha police, submitted last month, the agency had not cited these portions.

The arrest happened a few days after the railway board received the report on the Wednesday tragedy in Balasore from the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS). The Coromandel Express collided with a goods train on a different track owing to poor signaling caused by two botched maintenance works, one in 2018 and one hours before the disaster, according to the investigation.

The report, which HT has seen, stated that "the rear-collision (of Coromandel Express) was due to the lapses in the signalling-circuit-alteration carried out... in the past and during the execution of the signalling work related to replacement of electric lifting barrier for level crossing gate number 94 at the station."

To prevent any "influence or interference" with the CBI's continuing investigation in the case, the Railways decided not make the CRS investigative report on the Balasore triple train catastrophe public, according to authorities involved in the affair.



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