LAWS(BOM)-2025-6-216

DAMODAR PURSHOTTAM THAKKAR Vs. UNION OF INDIA

Decided On June 24, 2025
Damodar Purshottam Thakkar Appellant
V/S
UNION OF INDIA Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This Appeal under Sec. 23 of the Railway Claims Tribunal Act 1987 ("the Act of 1987") is directed against the judgment and award dtd. 21/4/2016, passed by the Railway Claims Tribunal, Mumbai Bench, Mumbai, whereby the Claim Application No. OA (IIU)/ MCC/840/2010, preferred by the Appellants-Applicants under Sec. 124-A of the Railways Act, 1989 ("the Railways Act") for compensation on account of death of their son, Kaushik ("the deceased") in an untoward incident on 7/7/2010, came to be dismissed.

(2.) The background facts leading to this Appeal can be stated in brief as under:

(3.) Being aggrieved, the Applicants have preferred this Appeal.