A 54-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh lost his leg in a tussle with phone thieves after he fell off the train at Reay Road. The victim identified as Akhtar Ali Khan, a homeopath, came to Mumbai to look for a groom for his daughter and was residing with friends in the eastern suburbs.

According to TOI, Khan took a train from Mankhurd for Sandhurst Road and was travelling in the second-class general compartment at 1.30 pm when he received a call. “There was no network in the compartment and I couldn’t hear the caller. At Reay Road station, I moved close to the door to return the call. Just before the train began to move, two young men got in. They snatched my phone and one of them got off. I was struggling with the other one when the train began to move. He then shoved me, following which, I lost my balance and rolled off to the end of the platform and landed on the tracks when the train then ran over my left leg,” Khan said.