Overview
- A 22-year-old passenger, Mayank Lohar, was allegedly stabbed to death inside a first-class local train after an argument on June 23, police say.
- A viral video of the incident prompted a Borivali hotel manager to alert police and led investigators to a knife that staff had found near Platforms 2 and 3 and kept in the staff room.
- Officers told the court the recovered weapon matches the knife shown in the footage and will undergo forensic verification to check for prior use.
- The accused, Roshan Suvarna, told police he obtained the knife months earlier from an e‑commerce warehouse where a friend worked and investigators have questioned that friend to corroborate the claim.
- A magistrate extended Suvarna’s police custody into early July to allow further interrogation, phone‑record analysis and forensic checks despite the defence arguing more remand was unnecessary, and police say their probe will seek to establish motive and any prior offences.