India, Nov. 8 -- A day after two people died after being hit by a local train while walking along the railway tracks near Sandhurst Road station, the Government Railway Police (GRP) on Friday launched a probe to ascertain if negligence on the part of railway employees who participated in a protest at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) on Thursday evening was responsible for the deaths.

"Our task is to find out if passengers were forced to jump off the stationary train and walk along the tracks towards CSMT because local train services were suspended in light of the protest at CSMT ," a senior GRP officer familiar with the probe told Hindustan Times.

Thursday's flash protest was organised by two of the largest railway employ...