Tag: Elphinstone Road

One year on, Mumbaikars pay homage to Elphinstone Road stampede victims

Meanwhile, the Mumbai Police is set to close the investigation concluding that what happened on the Elphinstone Road overbridge that day was an accident.

September 29, 2018

Sadistic ‘ceiling’

It took a single visit of the defence minister to the Elphinstone Road railway station in Mumbai to have Army engineers directed to raise a pedestrian over-bridge: but several meetings and unravelling bureaucratic red-tape are required to ~ hopefully ~ have rescinded a defence ministry order that fixed a ceiling of Rs 10,000 a month...

December 10, 2017

Mumbai: Death toll rises to 23 in Elphinstone stampede

The death toll in the stampede on a foot overbridge (FOB) linking two railways stations here has gone up to 23 with a critically injured person succumbing at the KEM hospital today. The dean of the hospital, Avinash Supe, said the deceased was identified as Satyendrakumar Kanojia who was in his late forties. “The patient...

September 30, 2017