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The Railway Safety Commission works under the administrative control of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and conducts a mandatory investigation of all railway accidents – at inhabited crossings, derailments or after the collapse of the railway. A bridge.
"Commission conducts statutory investigation into railway accidents: it is an incident where people have entered the tracks and not an accident", said the chairman of the Railway Commission, Ashwani Lohani.
The railways maintained that they were not at fault because they did not have any information about the Dussehra event.
A little earlier, the Minister of State of Railways, Manoj Sinha, had ruled out any punitive action on the part of his ministry.
"The incident is not the fault of the railways, we have lost no time and no action against the driver is engaged," said Sinha.
"People should in the future refrain from organizing this type of events near the tracks.I think that if precautions had been taken, the accident would have could be avoided, "he said, adding that at any time, such events were authorized by the district administration.
Vivek Kumar, head of the Ferozpur Railway Division, said that the driver had been interrogated but that no breach had been found.
He said that the train was traveling at a speed of 91 km / h but that after spotting the crowd on the track, it slowed down to 68 km / h.
Senior railway officials said that it was impossible for the railways to avoid the accident.
The railways, which pay compensation in most cases of accidents at unmanned level crossings, where the victims are "intruders", have so far offered no financial badistance to the families of those who died on Friday.
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