The Government Railway Police (GRP) has filed a criminal complaint against a tour operator for allegedly transporting cooking gas cylinders illegally in connection with the Madurai train incident that claimed the lives of nine passengers.
A criminal case has been filed by GRP under various sections of the IPC and the Railways Act regarding the "illegal smuggling" of a cooking gas cylinder into a tourist coach by the tour operator, according to a Southern Railway announcement.
According to the statement, Southern Railway would work with IRCTC to organize air transport for the survivors' return to Lucknow.
The statement said, "Southern Railway has made arrangements for the air transport of the deceased's bodies to Lucknow while properly adhering to all necessary medical and legal formalities."
When a fire started inside a halted train compartment at the railway station here early on Saturday, at least nine pilgrims traveling to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu tragically perished. The victims traveled to Mecca last week on a private party bus, and the majority of them were from Lucknow and the surrounding regions of Uttar Pradesh.
