India, Sept. 26 -- LUCKNOW The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has held that the death of a sufficiently developed foetus of more than five months' gestation in a railway accident amounts to the loss of a child and warrants separate compensation.

The court set aside a September 26, 2023, order of the Railway Claims Tribunal, Lucknow, and directed the Railways to pay an additional Rs.8 lakh for the death of a seven-month-old foetus carried by a woman who died after falling from a train.

Justice Prashant Kumar passed the order recently on an appeal filed by the family members of woman who died in the accident.

According to the case, the woman was travelling with her two sons on the Jan Sadharan Express from Sitapur Cantt to Bis...