India, May 5 -- Nearly 17 years after a 16-year-old boy died after falling from a crowded suburban train at Jogeshwari station, the Bombay High Court on Monday granted compensation up to Rs.8 lakh to his parents, holding that the death resulted from an "accidental fall from a moving train" and not while crossing railway tracks, as claimed by Western Railway.

A single-judge bench of Justice Jitendra Jain directed the boy's parents to file a fresh claim before the Railway Claims Tribunal. It also directed Western Railway to deposit Rs.4 lakh with 6% annual interest from the date of the accident in 2009, and ordered that the total compensation be capped at Rs.8 lakh, payable within 12 weeks.

The deceased, Arogyaraj Chetiyar, who did odd jo...