234 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on : 31.07.2025 FAO-6584-2017 (O&M)

Date of decision : 25.08.2025 Sushil Kumar Dhamija & anr. ...... Appellants Versus Union of India ..... Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE PANKAJ JAIN ***

Present :- Mr. Atul Bhatia, Advocate for the appellants.

Mr. Brijeshwar Singh Kanwar, Sr. Panel Counsel for the respondent.

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PANKAJ JAIN, J.

1 Challenge is to award dated 08.05.2017 passed by Railway Claims Tribunal, Chandigarh Bench, Chandigarh whereby claim application filed by the appellants seeking compensation on account of death of their daughter Prachi Dhamija stands dismissed.

2 As per the claimants their daughter Prachi Dhamija was pursuing her professional course at Delhi. Her practical examination which was scheduled for 20.04.2013 was cancelled. She telephonically informed her mother and sister about the same. As per the claimants Prachi boarded train after purchasing journey ticket from New Delhi to Sri Ganganagar to visit her relatives at Abohar and Fazilka. As the train reached at Bahawal Bassi, she accidently fell down from the running train and suffered multiple injuries on vital parts. She died on the spot. Bod