8 months on, Railway police yet to submit reports on Andheri's Gokhale bridge

Mumbai | Saturday | 16th March, 2019

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Thursday's incident of CSMT railway bridge collapse has revived the horrors of last year's Gokhale Bridge collapse at Andheri. In Gokhale bridge collapse two people were killed while in Elphinstone Road stampede 23 people were killed. "We had registered an Accidental Death Report (ADR) in the Gokhale railway bridge collapse incident under section 174 (police to enquire and report on suicide, etc.) However the police have registered a case of causing death by negligence in CSMT railway bridge collapse in which six person died. Speaking about the Elphinstone Road railway station stampede case of September 2017, the then ACP (Dadar Division), Sunil Deshmukh said, "No criminal case was registered in the Elphinstone Road railway station stampede case, only an ADR was filed..