JUDGMENT :

M.G. GIRATKAR, J.

1. This appeal is under Section 23 of the Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 against the judgment of the Railway Claims Tribunal, Nagpur in Claim Application No. OA (llu)/ NGP/187/2016 dated 31-12-2018.

2. The case of the appellants in short is as under:-

(i) One day prior to incident, deceased Santosh Dadarao Devtale had gone to Nagpur to meet his relative. On 15-8-2016 in the morning, deceased was returning from Nagpur to Sewagram. He boarded the train. When the train reached near Sewagram Railway Station, deceased accidentally fell down from the train and died on the spot. On the memo of Station Master, Sewagram, Police Station, Sewagram attended the spot and brought the deceased in MGIMS and Kasturba Hospital, Sewagram, Wardha for postmortem. The GRP, Sewagram had given information of incident to the appellants. Thereafter Sewagram Police Station has prepared the spot panchanama and inquest panchanama. Dead body was handed over to appellants after conducting postmortem.

(ii) The appellants filed claim application before the Railway Claims Tribunal, Nagpur. The said claim was resisted by the respondent. The Railway Claims Tribunal dismissed the claim appli