On Wednesday a 45-year-old farmer became owner of Swarna Shatabdi train which runs between Amritsar and New Delhi after he moved to the court to seek compensation due for his land acquired by Northern Railways.
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The court of additional district and sessions judge Jaspal Verma attached the train number 12030 at the Ludhiana station- technically giving it to aggrieved farmer, as the Northern Railways failed to comply with the court’s order of 2015 to provide enhanced compensation of Rs 1.05 crore to him. It also ordered attachment of the office of the station master.
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As a result, the decree holder, Sampuran Singh of Katana Village got the train. An hour ahead of the train reaching the station, Sampuran and his advocate Rakesh Gandhi, reached there. The court orders were handed to the train driver when it arrived at 6.55 pm. Section engineer Pradeep Kumar then got the train released on superdari from a court official who was there too, thus making it property of the court for now. . The episode lasted about five minutes.
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