India, July 18 -- Sixteen years after a 25-year-old call centre employee died after falling off a local train, the Bombay High Court has granted his mother Rs.4 lakh in compensation, holding that the Railway Accident Claims Tribunal (RACT) erred in rejecting her claim solely because no valid railway ticket was found on his body.

The court said the absence of a ticket on the man's body would not, by itself, mean he was a ticketless traveller, as inferrred by the RACT. It also noted that his mother's claim that his monthly season ticket was lost after he fell off the train had gone "entirely unchallenged".

The incident dates back to July 21, 2010, when Umer Moulali Hubballi was travelling by local train from his home in Vasai (West) to hi...