Odisha Train Tragedy: Woman Claims Husband Is Alive Is ‘Dead’ To Get Rs. 17 Lakh Ex-Gratia

In order to get the ex-gratia payout of Rs 17 Lakh offered for the accident victims, a lady from Cuttack forged phony papers and claimed that her husband had perished in one of India’s worst railway wrecks in Odisha last week.

The catastrophe, which featured the collision of three different trains and was thought to be one of the deadliest in terms of fatalities, resulted in 288 deaths and 900 injuries.

The next of kin would get Rs 17 lakh in case of death, which includes Rs 10 lakh from the Union Railway Ministry, Rs 2 lakh from the office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Rs 5 lakh from the office of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of Odisha. This money was what the lady wanted.

According to news source PTI, the situation came to light when the woman’s ‘living’ husband Vijay Dutt himself filed a case against her at the Maniabandha police station.

The lady is presently missing and being sought by the police after her husband’s accusation.

The lady allegedly mistakenly claimed that a deceased corpse was one of her husbands, the authorities said.

The Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express, the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, and a cargo train were all involved in the collision. The ministry turned over the matter to the CBI on Tuesday in response to the engineers’ preliminary inquiry and conclusions.

A central investigating agency will look into a railway accident case for the third time in the last ten years. The NIA looked into the Kanpur railway tragedy six years after the CBI looked into the Jnaneswari incident in 2010.

According to Odisha Chief Secretary Pradeep Kumar Jena, of the 288 corpses, 205 have been so far identified and sent to their relatives, while the other 83 are being held in AIIMS-Bhubaneswar and other hospitals for identification.

Six CBI agents visited the main line, the loop line, and the signal room while being escorted by Joint Director Special Crime Viplav Kumar Choudhry. The agents also interacted with railroad personnel there.

The Ministry of Railways enlisted the help of the central investigation agency after early findings suggested that the electronic interlocking system, which detects the presence of trains, may have been tampered with, and after authorities thought “sabotage” was to blame for the disaster on Friday.