Struggle to trace 17 passengers of Jnanenswari Express lingers on even after 13 yrs

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Every time 57-year-old Rajesh Kumar Bhatra crosses either the Agrasen Balika Siksha Sadan, a girls school at Liluah in Howrah district or the MC Kejriwal Vidyapeeth, barely a five-minute-walk from the other, reminds him of his son and daughter.o)..

He lost his wife Indu and both children 13 years ago..

Even though he traced his son and wife, till date the Howrah-resident is yet to find his daughter..

Till then, there was no trace of my wife and daughter, Bhatra told HT, sitting at his office in Kolkata..

As railway minister, I had given CBI the responsibility to probe the Jnaneswari Express accident, but there has not been any headway in the probe even after 13 years later, Banerjee had said..

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