The Supreme Court has directed that all counter-sold railway tickets carry insurance like online tickets from October 27, 2026, warning that the Railway Board’s safety assurances had remained largely on paper.
Two groups, one Railway ground and 24 hours to mark out space: the Calcutta High Court has settled the Sealdah Division Durga Puja row for the 2026 festival only, while the Athletic Club’s pandal stays. Kolkata: Setting aside a Single Judge’s order of 6 October 2026 that had permitted only the Sealdah Railway Athletic Club […]
Holding that a missing ticket cannot by itself defeat a claim for railway compensation, the Supreme Court has restored a Rs 8 lakh award to the parents of a man who died after falling from a train near Ahmedabad, setting aside the Gujarat High Court’s reversal. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that the […]
The Supreme Court has dismissed the Union of India’s special leave petition against a Madhya Pradesh High Court ruling that directed the Railways to reconsider Jitendra Verma’s claim for compassionate appointment after the death in harness of his grandmother, a West Central Railway employee who had raised him.
The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to take instructions on advocate Uttam Kumar’s PIL seeking an independent, technically competent audit of the IRCTC passenger reservation system, which alleges recurring technical failures, payment deductions without tickets and rapid exhaustion of displayed availability, and has listed the matter for next Wednesday.
The Allahabad High Court has directed the North Eastern Railway to provide an electricity connection within 30 days to the son of a temple Mahant living in a Railway Colony at Ballia, holding that electricity is an indispensable part of the right to life under Article 21 and that he had been forced to live without it for over a decade.
A Maharashtra Magistrate has issued a show-cause contempt notice to the Divisional Railway Manager, Nanded Division, over the failure to replace bed-bug-infested sofas in the VIP room at the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar railway station and to carry out pest control, despite an earlier direction. The Judge noted that High Court judges who wait in the room had been sitting in their cars instead, and directed the officer to appear in person on September 30.
