# RAM BABU & ORS vs UNION OF INDIA

Court: Delhi High Court
Date: 2025-05-09
Citation: FAO-127/2017 2025:DHC:3675
Petitioner: RAM BABU & ORS
Respondent: UNION OF INDIA

[Official PDF on Delhi High Court website](https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/app/showFileJudgment/61009052025FAO1272017_142412.pdf)

## Judgment text (excerpt)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 09th May, 2025 FAO 127/2017 RAM BABU & ORS .....Appellants Through: Mr. Anshuman Bal, Adv. versus UNION OF INDIA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Atul Krishna, Sr. Panel Counsel. Mr. Krishan, Adv. for Revisionist. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DHARMESH SHARMA DHARMESH SHARMA, J. (ORAL) 1. Having heard the learned counsels for the parties and upon perusal of the record, this Court proceeds to decide the present appeal preferred by the appellants, being the widower and minor children of the deceased Harbati, filed under Section 23 of the Railways Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 [‘RCT Act’], assailing the judgment-cum-award dated 19.05.2016 passed by the learned Presiding Officer, learned Railway Claims Tribunal [‘RCT’], Delhi, whereby their claim for the statutory amount of compensation of Rs. 4,00,000/- on account of the death of Smt. Harbati, the wife and mother of the appellants, in a 2. In a nutshell, the case of the claimants was that the deceased, Smt. Harbati, was travelling from Ajhai to Banchari Railway Station in an EMU train on 15.06.2013; and that her journey ticket had been purchased by her husband from Ajhai Railway Station. 

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