JUDGMENT :

(Duppala Venkata Ramana, J.) :

The present appeal is filed by appellants, being aggrieved by the rejection of their claim application by the Railway Claims Tribunal, Bhopal Bench vide judgment dated 6-1-2022. The claim being filed under section 16(1) read with section 13(1-A) of Railways Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 and section 124-A of Railways Act, 1989 sought compensation to the tune of Rs. 8,00,000/- with interest @ 12% from the respondent-Railways on account of death of their son in an untoward incident alleged to have been occurred in the intervening night of 12/13-12-2018.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as they arrayed before the RCT.

3. The facts of the case, as summarized in the impugned judgment as extracted below.

4. The present claim application that Shubham Dubey was travelling by unknown train Express from Harda to Khandwa on the strength of valid journey ticket during the course of journey in the intervening night of 12/13-12-2018, he accidentally fell down from the running train as a result died on the spot. That, his clothes were badly torn and all his belongings including journey ticket were lost in the alleged incident. When the de