BHUBANESWAR: A ten-member CBI staff on Monday visited the Balasore practice accident web site and started its probe into the triple practice crash, a Railway official mentioned. ECoR’s Khurda Road division DRM Rintesh Ray mentioned that in response to his data, the CBI probe has begun however the particulars weren’t instantly recognized. The Railway Board on Sunday beneficial a CBI probe into the accident.
Earlier, Commissioner of Railway Safety Shailesh Kumar Pathak visited the accident web site the place he went to the management room, sign room and sign level at Bahanaga Bazar railway station. This aside, the Government Railway Police in Balasore has registered a case on June 3 below numerous sections of Indian Penal Code and Railway Act over the accident.
Reacting to questions on the necessity for a CBI probe when the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) was already probing the incident, an official indicated that the preliminary inquiry revealed the necessity for a extra thorough investigation. “Lot of information has come during the course of the investigation. Various kinds of information have been made available which required a professional investigative agency,” he mentioned.
The accident through which a rushing Coromandel Express crashed right into a stationary items practice on the loop line as a substitute of travelling on the principle line indicated points with the digital interlocking system which modified the route of the practice and led to the collision. “Unless there is deliberate interference in the system, it is impossible that a route set for the main line is switched to the loop line,” he mentioned.
The railways has additionally launched a security drive with a slew of instructions to all zonal headquarters on the safety of station relay rooms and compounds housing signalling gear, together with “double locking arrangements”, after an preliminary probe confirmed “signalling interference” as a suspected motive behind the Odisha triple-train accident.
In accordance with the process, the CBI has taken over the Balasore GRP case quantity 64 registered by Odisha Police on June 3, official sources mentioned. The case was registered below numerous IPC sections like 37 and 38 (associated to inflicting damage and endangering lives by means of rash or negligent motion), 304A (inflicting demise by negligence) and 34 (frequent intention), and sections 153 (illegal and negligent motion endangering lives of Railway passengers ), 154 and 175 (endangering lives) of the Railways Act.
