Are the frequent derailments of the iconic Matheran Hill Railway due to technical faults, or is there something more to it? After the train derailed once again on Sunday, Ali Akbar Adamjee Peerbhoy, great-grandson of Adamjee Peerbhoy, who started the railway in 1907, offered a conspiracy theory, suspecting the Central Railway (CR) of having a hand in it.

"There must be something more to it. The railways could be doing it deliberately to show that the train is making losses. We have been fighting against the CR as they didn't give us proper compensation for taking over the railway line (Neral to Matheran). Showing that the Matheran railway does not make a profit benefits the Central Railway," Ali Akbar Adamjee Peerbhoy said. In 1952 CR bought the railway line from the Peerbhoys for Rs 4 lakh. But they claim the amount was not given entirely.