Bonafide Passenger Archives

[Railway Compensation Claim] Mere absence of railway ticket on deceased does not negate them of being a bonafide passenger: SC

‘Passenger’ would include a person who has purchased a valid ticket for travelling by a train carrying passengers on any date or a valid platform ticket and becomes a victim of an untoward incident.

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Bombay HC |A bonafide train passenger being forced to walk on the railway tracks due to absence of overbridge cannot be said as ‘negligent’

A person who comes from a village looking for a job, boards a passenger train holding a valid journey ticket, alights from the train and is trying to exit the Railway Station in the absence of overbridge being forced to walk along the tracks and gets hit by another train and dies, cannot be said to be intentionally careless or negligent.

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If a passenger carries a season ticket on local train but fails to provide an identity card, would he be not covered under ‘Bonafide Passenger’? Bom HC resolves

Bombay High Court: While partly allowing the appeal wherein a passenger sustained injuries in an untoward incident, Sandeep K. Shinde, J., expressed

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Jha HC | Mere absence of a ticket with the deceased will not negative claim of being a bonafide passenger, Court reiterates

Jharkhand High Court: The Bench of Dr S.N. Pathak, J., allowed a petition assailing the order and judgment passed by learned Railway