3 Railways men arrested over Odisha train tragedy
PNS|New Delhi
The Central Bureau of Investigation today arrested three employees of the Indian Railways in connection with the horrific train accident in Odisha’s Balasore last month that killed more than 293 people, and left over 1,000 injured. The central probe agency was probing the possibility of a criminal conspiracy into the accident.
The arrested men — Arun Kumar Mahanta, Md Amir Khan, and Pappu Kumar — have been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and destruction of evidence.
The Commissioner of Railways Safety (CRS) probing the accident had last week flagged human error of workers in the signalling department as responsible for it, dismissing the likelihood of a sabotage or a technical glitch or a machine fault.
