Overview
- The victim, 30-year-old Ritesh Rakesh Yerunkar, had boarded a Badlapur-bound fast local at Thane around 11 pm on January 18 and was seated in the luggage compartment.
- As the train began departing Ambernath around 11:45 pm, a co-passenger allegedly snatched his phone, prompting Yerunkar to stumble into the gap between the train and platform, crushing his left leg.
- He was taken first to a hospital in Ulhasnagar and then to Mumbai’s KEM Hospital, where doctors amputated his left leg; police say he remains under observation with additional head and facial injuries.
- Railway personnel and the GRP, with support from the RPF, intercepted the suspect at Ambernath station, and he has been remanded to judicial custody.
- Investigators booked the accused under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for attempt to murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and officers say he confessed a drug-related motive as the recovered phone was valued at under ₹20,000.