The CBI has charged the accused under Indian Penal Code Section 304 part II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), Section 34 read with 201 (common cause read with destruction of evidence) and 153 of the Railways Act.
The central agency had arrested the three senior section engineer (Signals) Arun Kumar Mahanta, section engineer Amir Khand and technician Pappu Kumar, all posted in Balasore district on July 7 in connection with its probe in the accident involving three trains which left 296 people dead and over 1,200 injured
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday filed a chargesheet against three railway officials before the court of Special Judicial Magistrate, Bhubaneswar, in an on-going investigation of a case related to train accident at Bahanaga Bazar Railway Station, Balasore in Odisha, in June.
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