For the past 15 years, a Central Railway (CR) motorman has been running from pillar to post, in search of justice. 42-year-old Mukesh Bhasney claims that he was accused of a crime that he didn’t commit, scapegoated by authorities, and even ousted from service as a motorman, without so much as an enquiry to investigate if he was really culpable. Bhasney joined the railways in 1988, and became a motorman in 1998. On October 2 that year he drove the local CST to Karjat and at 7.08 pm, things went downhill in the return trip. “The moment I left from Karjat station, I saw some lit torches, and labourers working on the track. Luckily, safety counsellor G M Singh was sitting next to me, and taking his permission, I applied the emergency brake to save the labourers working on the tracks,” said Bhasney.u00a0

Seeking justice: The past 15 years have been hellish for Bhasney, who was asked to join railways as an electrician at one-fourth of his earlier pay; his attempts for justice have ended in failure. Pic/Bipin Kokate