Absolute liability, What s. 82A of Railways Act, 1890 does is to run a liability which was 'contingent on fault' into an 'absolute' liability. What, however, it does not do, is to provide a free 'insurance cover' to the person and property of a passenger so that compensation can be claimed for the accidental death of or injury to the passenger and/or loss or damage to his property even when there has been no 'accident' to the train carrying such a passenger, Union of India v. Sunil Kumar Ghosh, (1984) 4 SCC 246: AIR 1984 SC 1737.
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