Valmiki J. Mehta, J. (Oral):--

1. This first appeal is filed under Section 23 of the Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 impugning the judgment of the Tribunal dated 22.7.2010 which has dismissed the claim petition filed by the applicants/claimants by holding that the deceased Smt. Ramesh Rani was not a bonafide passenger at the Shivaji Bridge Railway Station from where the train Paschim Express was sought to be boarded for travel to Ludhiana.

2. The facts as found by the Railway Claims Tribunal are that the deceased Smt. Ramesh Rani alongwith her minor daughter Baby Priya were to travel from New Delhi to Ludhiana by a train No. 2497, but since they missed the train, they cancelled the old tickets and purchased new general tickets for travel from New Delhi to Ludhiana. The deceased Smt. Ramesh Rani and her daughter were misguided by some people to board a wrong train and which was not going from New Delhi to Ludhiana but on the opposite direction towards Ghaziabad. After boarding the wrong train when the mistake was realized, the deceased Smt. Ramesh Rani and her daughter immediately de-boarded the train at Shivaji Bridge Railway Station which is just about 2-3 kms or so from New Delhi

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