India, May 3 -- Eight years after a Kalyan-bound man died after falling off a train, the Bombay High Court has ordered the Central Railway to pay his family Rs.8 lakh as compensation. While the railway authorities had refused to compensate the family claiming the man was not a bonafide passenger and he had fallen off the train due to his own negligence, a single-judge bench of justice MM Sathaye on April 21 observed that "there is sufficient material on record to hold that the deceased was a bonafide passenger who died as a result of an untoward incident."

The deceased, Vilas Jondhale, was in his thirties. Father to two minor sons, he fell off a running train in the early hours of August 28, 2018, and died in hospital later the same day....