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New Delhi: The rail police in Odisha registered an FIR on charges of "negligence not amounting to culpable homicide", among others, to investigate the Balasore train accident..
FIR, filed at the Balasore Government Railway Police station, has been registered under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Railways Act...
Significantly, FIR states that "at present culpability of specific railway employees", which has "not (been) ascertained", will be "unearthed during investigation"...
The IPC charges under which FIR has been registered are "causing hurt by endangering life or personal safety of others; causes grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life (Section 338); death of any person by doing any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide (Section 304A); acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention (Section 34)"...
These are "endangering safety of persons travelling by railway by wilful act or omission (Section 153); endangering safety of persons travelling by railway by rash or negligent act or omission (Section 154) and endangering the safety of persons (Section 175)"...
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