While the signalling department has been found to be primarily responsible, the station master, who is part of the operations department, has also been named for failing to detect “abnormal behaviour” of the signalling control system that could have prevented the tragedy.
The CBI officials first checked the panel room of the station, which displays the signalling system. They later talked to station officials in the record room and inspected the railway station.
As Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw listed the root cause of the three-train collision in Odisha, a report mentions how some ‘serious flaws’ in signalling system were red-flagged three months ago