Title - Railways asked to pay Rs 1 lakh fine to man injured on train

NEW DELHI: The dilapidated and dismal state of coaches has landed the Indian Railways in trouble with the consumer disputes redressal forum. The central district forum has asked the chairman of Indian Railways to pay a fine of Rs 1 lakh to a man who injured his fingers while travelling on the Sapt Kranti Express.Complainant Bharat Bhushan Dinkar, a resident of west Vinod Nagar, was travelling from Muzaffarpur Junction in Bihar to Anand Vihar railway station on August 21. "It is alleged that when he was reaching for his upper berth, his fingers hit the moving overhead fan which was loosely fitted with a broken cover," said the forum.As per the court order, under president C K Chaturvedi, the complainant suffered soft tissue injury to the index, middle and ring finger on his right hand. "He was referred to RML Hospital where he was diagnosed with a fracture of the middle finger and laceration to distal phalanx and ring finger,'' said the court order. The complainant said that, being an advocate, his work suffered as he could not work on his laptop or handle papers due to the injury.While the Indian Railways disputed territorial jurisdiction of the forum by saying that the complaint should be filed in Bihar, the court noted that "the Indian Railways is one entity".