Directing railways to pay Rs 8 lakh as compensation to 54-year-old complainant Munnibai Chaube from Bhandara district in Maharashtra, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court said that a person cannot be termed as unauthorised passenger for accidentally boarding a wrong train and compensation cannot be denied to his family only on that ground.

A single-judge bench of justice Anuja Prabhudessai also stated that the amount should be deposited directly in Chaube's bank account within three months.