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On 2 June, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express (12841) collided with a goods train and some of its bogies collided with the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express (12864). 293 people lost their lives in the accident.
A special court in Bhubaneswar has sent three accused railway officials to judicial custody in connection with the train accident in Balasore, Odisha.
Senior Section Engineer Arun Kumar Mohanta, Section Engineer Mohd Amir Khan and Technician Pappu Kumar were arrested on 7 July.
The special court had sent all three to CBI remand for five days. On July 11, the remand of all three was extended for four days.
A case has been registered against the accused under sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 201 (causing destruction of evidence) of the IPC and section 153 of the Railway Act.
The CBI remand of the three ended on Friday, after which they were produced in the CBI Special Court. The next hearing in the case will be on July 27.
On July 12, the Railways suspended 7 officers
On June 2, over 293 people were killed and over 1,000 were injured in the train accident near Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore.
Railways had suspended 7 officers on 12th July. These included 3 railwaymen who were arrested.
General Manager of South Eastern Railway, Anil Kumar Mishra said that if these officers were alert, the accident would not have happened.
Fault in signaling system due to Balasore accident
The CBI is probing the accident. An inquiry has also been conducted by the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) on behalf of the Railway Board. On July 3, the CRS submitted a 40-page report to the board.
According to reports, the automated signaling system went awry because of incorrect labeling of wires inside the level-crossing location box. Which became the cause of the accident.
The mislabeling of the wires in the crossing location box went undetected for years. It also went wrong during maintenance.
Within 51 hours of the accident, the rescue team rescued all the injured.
Big things of CRS report…
- All the wires were wrongly connected inside the level-crossing location box. Because of that, there was a disturbance during the maintenance work, due to which wrong functions were being indicated. Couldn’t find out about it for years.
- The signaling department is being held primarily responsible for the accident. The report also names the station master who failed to detect the fault in the signaling control system.
- At another place in Balasore also the location box diagram was used for the location box of Bahanaga Bazar. It was a wrong move, which resulted in wrong wiring.
- The Coromandel Express had a green signal for the main line. While the train’s direction deciding system was wrongly pointing towards the loop line.
- The electric lifting barrier at the level crossing was replaced on the day of the accident. During this, there was a disturbance due to wrong labeling at the terminal. The circuit of the point where the train takes the train from one track to another had already been shifted.
- On May 16, 2022 also a similar incident took place at Bankra Nayabaz station of Kharagpur division due to wrong ring and faulty wire. Even then, if the wiring had been fixed, the Balasore accident would not have happened.
