Bombay HC – Railway Employee Death – Compensation – Valid Railway Pass Ensures Bonafide Passenger Status, Even Off Duty
Railway Employee – Bonafide Passenger
While travelling in an Express train, the deceased employee of the respondent Railway fell down and lost his life.
The Railway Claims Tribunal held that it is a case of an accident fall from a train and therefore, he was not a Bonafide passenger.
The deceased was not on duty at the time of the incident. However, he had valid railway pass as per the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986.
merely because an employee holding a valid pass fails to mention himself the details referred to in the pass, same cannot be held to mean that the employee was travelling without a valid pass.
Judgment dated 19.1.2026 of the High Court of Bombay in First Appeal No.315 of 2012 of Seetabai Pandharinath Temghare Vs. Union of India through the General Manager Central Railway, C.S.T. Mumbai.
