J U D G M E N T

1. The present appeal is filed in terms of Section 23 of The Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 19872 assailing the impugned order dated 17.09.2018 passed by the Learned Railway Claims Tribunal, Principal Bench, Delhi3, in claim application bearing No. OA (IIu) No. 306/2017 (hereinafter referred to as the „claim application‟) under section 16 of the learned RCT Act, titled „Smt. Resham & Ors. Vs. Union of India‟, whereby the learned RCT dismissed the claim application of the applicants (appellants herein).

FACTUAL BACKGROUND:

2. To put it briefly, the appellants before this Court are the legal heirs of the deceased Shri Nitin Kumar, consisting of his wife, minor 1 Written submissions filed by appellants on 21.11.2023. No written submissions filed on behalf of

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son and dependent parents. It is their case that the deceased was a daily passenger having a valid MST4 No. 15703626 valid from 19.08.2017 to 18.09.2017. On the fateful day of the accident, i.e., 16.09.2017, the deceased was travelling from Ghaziabad to Okhla by train for his duty at Intex Phone Service Centre, and when the train reached at Platform No.3, Tilak Bridge Railway Station, New Delhi,