In what could be termed as a serious lapse in safety measures concerning Central Railway city commuters, the spate of two derailments of local trains on the Harbour line comes close to a very serious allegation. The allegation is of misleading and false updates being fed in the centralised system of Central Railway’s Mumbai division “becoming increasingly common” where a railway motorman on April 13 raised an alarm in a letter to the general manager just last week.

It has been alleged that defects are not being attended to properly in reality, but on the database they are being shown as attended to.