Overview
- The collision occurred between 8:30 pm and 9 pm on Friday near Palghar railway station, according to police and PTI reporting.
- The deceased were identified as Swapnil Shailesh Palande, 23, Kunal Kumar Dubla, 23, and Afroz Khalil Sheikh, 28, all from Virendra Nagar in Palghar East.
- Senior Inspector Sachin Ingavale of the Palghar GRP said the men were walking on the tracks and that there is no information indicating a police chase or suicide.
- Relatives alleged plain-clothes personnel assaulted the youths and that the trio ran toward the tracks while trying to escape before being struck by the goods train.
- GRP personnel responded to the scene, moved the bodies to a government hospital for post-mortems, registered an accidental-death case, and authorities boosted deployment to ease local tensions.