Based on earlier court directions, CR on Thursday submitted an affidavit giving statistics of the injured and dead in the last six months and the time taken to transfer the victims to hospitals.

However, petitioner Samir Zaveri pointed out that the facts were not true and produced station master’s memo which showed that the time taken to transfer one of the victims was actually two hours, which was shown as 35 minutes in the affidavit. Petitioner said that two hours was the time taken to hand over the victim to the railway police and the memo does not show any confirmation of hospital admission.

A division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice D Y Chandrachud after observing the discrepancies directed the CR to file a further affidavit before the next hearing.

During the last hearing the court had quizzed the Central and Western railways on what steps they have taken after 26/11 terror attacks with regard to medical capability and other facilities.

The court had expressed dissatisfaction over non-implementation of court orders for upgrading medical facilities in all the stations.

The court had asked the counsel appearing for WR on what steps they had taken after the terror attacks. The court was hearing a public interest litigation filed by Samir Zaveri who himself had lost his legs in a rail accident 20 years back. Zaveri states how a passenger had taken him to a hospital as there was no help from the railways.