Station master’s ‘OK’ sends train, his life on wrong track – Times of India
RAIPUR: A train chugged off where it wasn't supposed to, railways suffered a Rs 3-crore loss, a station master was suspended, and a divorce battle dragged on for 12 years from Visakhapatnam to Supreme Court and Chhattisgarh's Durg - because of a cursory 'OK'.The station master had ended an angry phone call with his wife with the word, but it was mistaken for a go-ahead to send a train into Maoist territory, triggering this stranger-than-fiction chain of events.The station master hails from Visakhapatnam and his now divorced wife is from Durg. Court evidence shows they married on Oct 12, 2011, but the bride was unhappy due to her past relationship with another man, and her confession that she wasn't over it. This led to friction at home. Train’s journey into Maoist-hit area cost Railways Rs...