L. Manoharan,(President):- Complaint for a direction to the opposite parties to pay compensation for their negligence resulting injury and consequential death of Dr. T.V. Viswanathan the husband of the first complainant and the father of the complainants 2 & 3.

1. The al1egations in the complaint in brief are as follows: Dr. T. V. Viswanathan. Associate Professor Kerala Agricultural University Mannuthy booked a second class ticket for his journey from Thrissur to Thiruvananthapuram in night Right of 19.2.95 for attending a seminar at Thiruvananthapuram. When train reached Pudukkad railway station at about 11 p.m he stepped out to the platform with his bag and in the process to boarding the train due to the unusual jerk he fell from the compartment on the footpath of the platform; PWI, and the two others who were on the platform seeing Viswanathan falling immediately rushed to him and tried to help him They reported, to the third opposite party Station Master that a passenger is lying on the footpath of the platform in an unconscious condition. But the third opposite party directed the informant to bring the unconscious man before his room, thereupon they transported the unconsc