Mumbai: In the third incident in three months, a Western train staff fell from a local train that moved while chasing a telephone robber and suffered an injury to his backbone.
While the culprit was arrested within 12 hours, the question remained how the criminal element had access the train when only important workers were allowed to travel by train.
Timesview This Sad Case once again highlighted the need to control access to the train station.
Small criminals managed to have a free railway.
Although the police need to be praised for arresting the perpetrators in many cases, incidents of grabing chains and cellphones even cause tragic death.
Commuter, especially women, need to be aware of their environment and take precautions.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, when Snehal Hulke (30), a junior engineer with WR, traveled to work in a second grade compartment of a train church bound from Virar.
Hulke is a training participant and must report assignments at 5 pm.
Around 16:40, when the train stopped at the No.
4 Dadar Platform, a man ride a female coach.
“Hulke returned it to him and was checking his phone.
Just like the train began to move, the man grabbed his phone and jumped out of the coach,” said the senior Inamdar Mehboob Inspector.
Hule ran after him, but the train had gathered speed.
He fell on the platform, landed on his back.
Eyewitnesses called police and Hulke rushed to Jagjivan Ram Hospital, Mumbai Central.
His brother, a doctor, told Tii.
“Snehal is very painful and can’t lie down.
He suffered swelling to the spine and we were waiting for the MRI scan report.” The police passed the CCTV footage from the Dadar Station and found a picture of a man who fits the description of the robbers provided by Hule.
Rahul Bakiya (25) was tracked to Bhawani Shankar Road in Dad-Ar (W), where he lived in a slum.
Hulke telephone is worth RS 17,000 recovering from it.
“This is the first time Butiya has been booked for violations on the train,” said an officer.
Bakiya was ordered under the IPC part of 392 (robbery) and facing up to 10 years in prison, if he was found guilty.