New Delhi, June 24: Railway minister Nitish Kumar today said the area near yesterday's accident site in the Konkan railway was considered a "stable stretch" and no netting of the steep slope had been done by authorities. "According to Konkan railways it was a stable stretch which was not prone to landslides.....And no netting had been done", Kumar told a news channel. In fact, he said, a little distance from the accident site, the railways had taken all precatuions for loose boulders.

At least 51 persons were killed in one of the worst-ever accidents on the Konkan railway network involving Karwar-Mumbai central holiday special on Sunday.
Bureau Report