FIR against protesters who disrupted railway services which led to death of two

The GRP official said the strike of Central Railway employees stopped the central local train services between 5.30 pm and 6.38 pm on November 6 when protesters locked the waiting room of motormen. This one-hour strike had brought services to a halt during peak hours, leaving hundreds stranded and prompting several to deboard and attempt to reach their destinations on foot by walking on the tracks. The incident occurred near Sandhurst Road railway station when five passengers were hit by an Ambernath bound fast train, a 19-year-old girl and 68-year-old Nagpur resident were killed on the spot while three others injured. Soon after the incident, CSMT GRP registered a case of accidental death in the incident.

After the probe, the GRP decided to register a case against protesters as the strike was illegal and an act of blocking the services unacceptable, an official said. Police sub-inspector Mahesh Patil attached with GRP became the complainant and an FIR registered under sections 189 (2), 190, 127 (2), 221, 223 of the BNS and sections 37 (1), and 135 of the Maharashtra Police Act against Dubey and Sisodia who were leading the protest outside the motormen’s waiting room.

CRMS’s strike was launched in protest against GRP registering an FIR on November 1 against two Central Railway engineers and senior officials for alleged negligence that led to a fatal accident in Mumbra in June in which five persons died and nine were injured. Soon after the FIR, unions had described the FIR an “unfair action” by the GRP.

Passengers were left in the lurch as trains were halted at CSMT around 5.30 pm, and protesters with CRMS and NFIR staged a sit-in outside senior officials’ offices demanding withdrawal of the FIR. The members of the National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR) protested at 3pm and left. However, members of CRMS protested at DRM office and later around 40 members led by Dubey and Sisodia came outside the motormen’s waiting room at 5.30pm and they locked the room from outside and did not allow the motormen to come out of the room.

The FIR stated that they even placed the iron benches at the main door of the motormen room and station manager’s office and blocked them completely so they could not come out. The motorman/guard of the local trains were confined in the room and local trains on the up and down routes coming to CSMT Railway Station were disrupted and local train traffic was completely stopped.  With no announcements initially, confused commuters deboarded halted trains and began walking on the tracks. Services resumed after 6.40 pm, said a GRP official.

The Mumbra incident occurred on June 9 when two local trains CSMT to Karjat and Kasara to CSMT allegedly collided with each other at Mumbra causing death of five passengers and nine others injured. The Thane GRP then registered a case against the railway engineers so the members of CRMS decided to protest and informed the railway police and also given a written letter that they would take out a peaceful protest march on November 6.

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