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MUMBAI: A CCTV footage showed a antheral panicking and fleeing crossed a ft overbridge astatine Malad railway presumption soon aft a assemblage teacher was stabbed to decease wrong a crowded section bid connected Saturday evening. The Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested the accused, identified arsenic Omkar Eknath Shinde (27), a daily-wage labourer, wrong 12 hours of the crime. He was apprehended from the Kurar country successful Mumbai’s occidental suburbs, officials said connected Sunday. Police said the victim, Alok Kumar Singh (33), a prof astatine Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, was attacked pursuing a insignificant statement portion alighting from a Borivali-bound section bid astatine Malad presumption astir 6 pm.
According to investigators, the statement escalated suddenly, pursuing which Shinde allegedly stabbed Singh successful the tummy with a crisp entity connected level fig 1. The accused past took vantage of the unreserved astatine the presumption and fled, leaving Singh bleeding connected the platform. Singh was rushed to Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital successful Kandivali, wherever doctors declared him brought dead. “CCTV footage showed a antheral panicking, wearing a achromatic garment and bluish jeans, fleeing crossed a ft overbridge soon aft the attack.
Based connected the footage and witnesser accounts, we identified and tracked the accused,” a GRP authoritative said. Police said respective commuters who were contiguous successful the bid compartment witnessed the statement and the assault. Their statements are being recorded arsenic portion of the investigation. CCTV footage from Malad presumption and erstwhile stations connected the way is besides being examined. Shinde, who works arsenic a metallic polisher, has been arrested nether applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Police are besides trying to ascertain the nonstop limb utilized successful the attack. Singh lived successful Malad East with his woman and had been teaching mathematics and statistic successful the inferior assemblage conception since 2024. Colleagues described him arsenic calm and soft-spoken and said the incidental had near the assemblage assemblage successful shock.
