Four officers suspended for Kalindi train accident

January 16, 2010 07:09 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 07:11 am IST - New Delhi

The Ministry of Railways on Saturday suspended four persons including the Allahabad Divisional Railway Manager and senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer after the fourth accident in a fortnight.

Allahabad DRM S.K. Aggarwal, senior DME Vinit Singh and two drivers of the Kalandi Express have been placed under suspension pending an inquiry into the incident, said a senior Railway Ministry official.

The two drivers are Ram Prakash and Satpal Singh Yadav who were injured in the accident that killed three persons injured 17 near Tundla on Saturday morning. Kalindi Expressed rammed into the stationery Shram Shakti Express in dense fog.

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