Widow sought rail compensation; ticket bought 4 hours after train left, HC rejects

In a strange case, a woman sought railway compensation after her husband’s death, but the train he was supposed to be travelling on had left four hours before the ticket was bought!The Delhi High Court has refused to award compensation in a case involving the death of a man who was allegedly killed after falling from a moving train. The Delhi High Court found that the claimant could not establish the basic requirement of proving that the deceased was a bona fide passenger travelling on the train concerned.Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri upheld the 2014 order of the Railway Claims Tribunal, which had rejected the compensation claim brought by Sunaina Devi, the widow of Shambhu Manjhi.Why the widow lost the compensation claim caseA discrepancy in the railway ticket produced by the claimant became central to the case.