evidence: Many conspiracy theories are being circulated on social media giving it a communal spin. While giving this accident a communal angle, people on social media claimed that the station master of the Bahanga Bazar railway station (the nearest railway station to the accident side) is a Muslim identified as Sharif Ali and he fled the accident site. [...] In further investigation, we found that SB Mohanty was the officer on duty at the Bahanaga Bazar Station closest to the accident site. We could not find any report mentioning an officer named Mohammad Sharif working at the Bgahanaga Bazar station on the day of the accident. We came across a report by Kalinga TV, an Odia news outlet, dated June 3. The title of the report reads, "Odisha train accident: Bahanaga Assistant Station Master is on the run, case registered". According to the report, after the train accident took place, Bahanaga Assistant Station Master S B Mohanty, who was on duty, fled from the spot. However, fact-checking website Alt News spoke to two senior IPS officers from Odisha who told them that no one fled from the accident site and police were in touch with them.