‘NOBODY IS SAFE IN THIS CITY’

MUMBAI: On Friday afternoon, Dariya Devi Shankar Chaudhary should have got off the Bhuj-dadar Express at 12.30pm and met her brother-in-law, Ramesh Bholanath Chaudhary at Dadar station. When Ramesh reached the station, he had no idea that only her dead body was in the train. “No one is safe in Mumbai,” said Ramesh, who on Saturday accompanied Chaudhary’s husband and three children back to Surat, to perform her last rites. Ramesh, 37, is married to Chaudhary’s sister and a resident of Neelam Committee Chawl at Sewri Cross Road in Wadala. Ramesh told the police that Chaudhary was wearing two gold rings on her right hand and one thin gold chain, none of which were found on her body.

“She was used to travelling alone and once a year would visit us. She used to take the same train and come to Dadar station where I would pick her up,” said Ramesh. On Friday, Ramesh got a call from the GRP at Mumbai Central. They asked him to come and identify a body. “They had called me as Dariya Devi was carrying a chit with my mobile number on it in her luggage, which the police found. I identified the body and informed Shankar [Chaudhary’s husband] who was in Surat,” said Ramesh. He said that Shankar, a sales executive at a garment shop, arrived in Mumbai on Saturday morning. After completing the formalities, they claimed Chaudhary’s body and returned to Surat.

MEGHA SOOD