Tragedy on Tracks: A Year On, Screams of Dead Still Haunt Amritsar

It’s been one year since the Amritsar train tragedy that killed 62 on Dussehra, but have the guilty been punished? 

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19 October 2018. It’s Dusshera. And Amritsar’s Dhobi Ghat has been holding Raavan's effigy-burning for four years in a row in Joda Phatak. This area has two railways crossings and that should have raised concerns, but nobody had complained, or taken any written permission before the event.

That was the usual affair -- until a local passenger train travelling from Jalandhar station to Amritsar ran through the crowd watching the Dussehra that had spilled over on to the tracks. The train mowed down 62 people. On 19 October this year, it will be one year since the tragedy. And nobody has been held responsible yet; the guilty hasn't been punished.

This is The Big Story, the podcast where we dissect the headline making news for you, and I'm Shorbori. In this episode, we’re covering one year of the Amritsar train tragedy.

Did the the survivors and the families of victims get justice? Are there stricter regulations around the railway crossings? Tune in to The Big Story to find out!