The shocking incident happened over a relatively “minor” dispute while alighting from a moving local train.
(From left) Grainy CCTV footage captures accused Omkar Shinde stabbing Alok Kumar Singh as the train halted at Malad station; CCTV footage showing Alok Kumar Singh collapsing inside the local train after being stabbed; CCTV grab of accused Omkar Shinde fleeing across the foot overbridge at Malad station after the attack
CCTV surveillance and facial recognition software, besides other aspects like eyewitness details, helped police arrest the man who fatally stabbed a college professor at the Malad railway station in Mumbai on Saturday.
The shocking incident happened over a relatively “minor” dispute while alighting from a moving local train.
What is chilling is that this seems almost an everyday happening, where train arguments erupt over boarding, alighting, and seating as trains and stations, with their crowds often become a simmering cauldron of short fuses and survival of the fittest or fastest.
Yet, to think that an argument could trigger a murder is terrifying, in a city unfortunately inured to train incidents. This proves there is a significant facet to commuter safety in the megalopolis. This is rage. One has heard about road rage; railway rage cannot be overlooked.
We need to teach and learn calm, composure, patience and a sense of cooperation to dial back train tiffs that can escalate massively.
We may have witnessed or just learnt about squabbles, train fury, train gangs, bullies, etc. This is an absolute inferno in this environment. Desist from aligning with these; step back from arguments or fisticuffs and report behaviour like this to the police. This may sound naive and almost utopian for those who are caught up in the quotidian challenge of rail travel. Yet, it is beneficial if individuals take upon themselves the onus of following every rule and control when accessing these trains.
We need to work on our anger response, regard for human life and self-control, applying it to every area of life. Railway rage may be a uniquely Mumbai phenomenon. It is real and can be deadly, as this has shown.
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