India, Nov. 14 -- Two Central Railway (CR) engineers who were booked for culpable homicide over the mishap in Mumbra on June 9, in which five passengers died after falling off two overcrowded local trains, were on Thursday denied anticipatory bail by the additional sessions judge in Thane. The accused engineers will file a fresh bail application in the Bombay High Court on Friday, their lawyer Baldev Singh Rajput told Hindustan Times.

Pradnya Jedge, deputy commissioner of police with the Government Railway Police (GRP), which had booked the two engineers, declined to comment on Thursday's development.

The two CR engineers - assistant divisional engineer Vishal Dolas and senior section engineer Samar Yadav - are accused of failing to rep...