EX-GRATIA PAYMENT FOLLOWING FIRE
IN GOLDEN TAMPLE MAIL
The Railways have
paid ex-gratia amounting to Rs. 36 lakhs to the next of kin those
of who died, and Rs. 30,000 to the grievously injured, in fire
accident involving the 2903 Golden Temple Mail (Frontier Mail)
near Ludhiana on May 15, 2003.
A statutory inquiry
by the Commissioner of Railway Safety is still on. It has submitted
a Preliminary Inquiry Report mentioning that the cause of the
fire would be finalized on receipt of forensic report only, which
is still awaited from the Punjab State Forensic Science Laboratory.
