Mumbai Railway Tracks Deaths

A 24-year-old man was found stabbed to death near a railway track in Kurla area of the city on Tuesday, police said.

Thousands were stranded at railway stations across Mumbai after incessant rains flooded railway tracks in the city and its surrounding areas on Saturday, amid predictions by the India Meteorological Department that the weather situation will only get worse in the next 24 to 36 hours. Two deaths were reported during the day, and three people are sti...

A young woman in Mumbai, Pallavi Vikamsey, was found dead last evening on train tracks in central Mumbai in between Parel and Currey Road stations on the Central Railway network. The police says it was an accidental death and suspects that she fell off a train, though sources say text messages sent by her allegedly told her family "no one is respon...

Veteran actor Mukesh Rawal, known for his role of 'Vibhishan' in serial 'Ramayana', was found dead on railway tracks in Mumbai suburb Kandivali, railway police said today.

With nearly 10 people dying on the railway tracks in Mumbai every day and many among them falling off overcrowded local trains, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Railways.

"Meri aankhon ke saamne maut dekha," a shaken L Tiwari told Western Railway officials yesterday, describing the moments when he realised that the train he was piloting was running out of track, hurtling, at high speed, towards platform no 3 of Churchgate station.

While the year is far from over, the Mumbai railway division has already clocked 2,143 deaths and 1,938 injuries on its train tracks between January and mid-August, casting a shadow on all of the government Railway Police's (GRP) efforts to curb such accidents.

There is no need to drop your jaw if someone you know is alive and kicking has his epitaph engraved on - and this is unusual - the railway tracks before Sion. It's a new-age publicity device, apparently coupled with goodwill for the janta. In an initiative allegedly meant to raise awareness about the pitfalls - namely death and mutilation - of cros...

'Do not cross the tracks,' is a message a commuter hears every day while travelling by train and yet most often one tends to ignore this advice. Yesterday, Vijay Patil and his wife and parents also chose to ignore this valuable advice that eventually led to his and his wife's death. Instead of celebrating their son's first wedding anniversary, Vija...

Mindless stunts pulled between three passengers travelling on two parallel local trains cost an innocent co-passenger his life on Wednesday afternoon. The Borivli Government Railway Police (GRP) officers arrested two men last evening for allegedly causing the death of 26-year-old Maqbool Ansari on a Borivli bound local, while they engaged in frivol...

Mumbai's two-day-old local train crisis on the arterial Central line has claimed two lives. Hanging on precariously to an over-crowded train, two men hit a signal pole on the side of the tracks, fell off the train and died in suburban Mulund.

In a gruesome incident, a young married woman was allegedly clubbed to death and later dumped on to the railway tracks in Navi Mumbai, Thane rural police said today.

Kalyan railway police investigating a case informed that a case of accident was found to be a murder. Accordingly they have booked Shankar Pingla (25), Yashawant Bhagat (29), and Antya Paradhi (20), under sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on Thursday an...

The 70-year-old man was injured while crossing the tracks. As there was no ambulance available, the railway porters left him outside the station. According to railway officials, Ahmed Ali Khan was crossing the tracks at Kurla station when he was struck down by a CST-bound local leaving platform no 5.

A 24-year-old man was found stabbed to death near a railway track in Kurla area of the city on Tuesday, police said.

Thousands were stranded at railway stations across Mumbai after incessant rains flooded railway tracks in the city and its surrounding areas on Saturday, amid predictions by the India Meteorological Department that the weather situation will only get worse in the next 24 to 36 hours. Two deaths were reported during the day, and three people are sti...

A young woman in Mumbai, Pallavi Vikamsey, was found dead last evening on train tracks in central Mumbai in between Parel and Currey Road stations on the Central Railway network. The police says it was an accidental death and suspects that she fell off a train, though sources say text messages sent by her allegedly told her family "no one is respon...

Veteran actor Mukesh Rawal, known for his role of 'Vibhishan' in serial 'Ramayana', was found dead on railway tracks in Mumbai suburb Kandivali, railway police said today.

With nearly 10 people dying on the railway tracks in Mumbai every day and many among them falling off overcrowded local trains, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Railways.

"Meri aankhon ke saamne maut dekha," a shaken L Tiwari told Western Railway officials yesterday, describing the moments when he realised that the train he was piloting was running out of track, hurtling, at high speed, towards platform no 3 of Churchgate station.

While the year is far from over, the Mumbai railway division has already clocked 2,143 deaths and 1,938 injuries on its train tracks between January and mid-August, casting a shadow on all of the government Railway Police's (GRP) efforts to curb such accidents.

There is no need to drop your jaw if someone you know is alive and kicking has his epitaph engraved on - and this is unusual - the railway tracks before Sion. It's a new-age publicity device, apparently coupled with goodwill for the janta. In an initiative allegedly meant to raise awareness about the pitfalls - namely death and mutilation - of cros...

'Do not cross the tracks,' is a message a commuter hears every day while travelling by train and yet most often one tends to ignore this advice. Yesterday, Vijay Patil and his wife and parents also chose to ignore this valuable advice that eventually led to his and his wife's death. Instead of celebrating their son's first wedding anniversary, Vija...

Mindless stunts pulled between three passengers travelling on two parallel local trains cost an innocent co-passenger his life on Wednesday afternoon. The Borivli Government Railway Police (GRP) officers arrested two men last evening for allegedly causing the death of 26-year-old Maqbool Ansari on a Borivli bound local, while they engaged in frivol...

Mumbai's two-day-old local train crisis on the arterial Central line has claimed two lives. Hanging on precariously to an over-crowded train, two men hit a signal pole on the side of the tracks, fell off the train and died in suburban Mulund.

In a gruesome incident, a young married woman was allegedly clubbed to death and later dumped on to the railway tracks in Navi Mumbai, Thane rural police said today.

Kalyan railway police investigating a case informed that a case of accident was found to be a murder. Accordingly they have booked Shankar Pingla (25), Yashawant Bhagat (29), and Antya Paradhi (20), under sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on Thursday an...

The 70-year-old man was injured while crossing the tracks. As there was no ambulance available, the railway porters left him outside the station. According to railway officials, Ahmed Ali Khan was crossing the tracks at Kurla station when he was struck down by a CST-bound local leaving platform no 5.