The Wadala Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested six thieves including four minors for attempting to steal a commuter's wallet and push him out of a running train at Kurla on Friday afternoon. The victim, who had come from Bihar with his two cousins, had boarded a CSMT-bound local from Tilak Nagar railway station. During the journey when he realized that his wallet had been picked by a passenger standing behind him, he demanded it back. The passenger, however, attacked him with a blade and tried to push him out of the train.

Rehmul Abdul Rehman Sheikh, a daily wage worker, had returned from Bihar on November 1. He got off the Patliputra Express around 3.30 pm at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and reached Tilak Nagar Railway station on the harbour line to go to Bandra. "My cousins and I got into the compartment just behind the motorman of around 4pm. While I was standing in the passage, I realised that the person behind me had taken my wallet. I quickly turned to see who it was and demanded my wallet back," said Rehmul Sheikh.
To Sheikh's horror, the passenger slapped him and slashed him on the chest with a razor blade he had taken out from under his tongue. The thief's associate, too, started thrashing Sheikh. When his two cousins tried to intervene and save him, more associates of the thief appeared and tried to throw Sheikh out of the running train. Luckily, the train had reached Kurla station and Sheikh and his cousins started shouting for help. Constables attached to the Wadala GRP rushed to the compartment and caught six people. They were all were taken to Wadala GRP Police station.