Two mobile phone thieves almost murdered a man in their desperation to get away after snatching a phone at Borivli railway station on Sunday. The Borivli GRP, after scouring CCTV footage at the station, finally tracked down and arrested the two men.

According to GRP sources, the incident took place on January 11 when the complainant, Shibi Uday Dholi, 25, along with his uncle Suraj Dholi, 42, were waiting for a train at Borivli station's platform No. 7. Both are residents of Surat. They were in the city visiting relatives and were on their way back to Gujarat that day. Suraj was playing a game on his mobile phone, when suddenly two unknown men come close to where they were sitting and one of them snatched the phone from Suraj's hand and jumped on the tracks to flee.