A day after a major signalling failure crippled Central Railway services for several hours, the family of a 21-year-old college student who died while crossing the tracks at Bhandup has demanded compensation from the railways, alleging that the disruption contributed to his death.

Sahil Navnath Thite, a final-year BCom student at Ratnam College, was struck by a Kalyan-bound fast local at Bhandup station on Monday evening. According to his family, he was trying to reach a slow train after being unable to travel towards Bhandup on a fast local amid the disruption.