Mum-ahmedabad Tejas Exp flagged off: Light panel falls off, none hurt
MUMBAI: Indian Railway’s second privately operated outstation train, and the first such train from the city — the Mumbai Central-ahmedabad Tejas Express — was flagged off by Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani on Friday. However, during the inaugural run, an acrylic panel in the train fell. Nobody was injured in the incident.
An acrylic panel is used to support lights on the ceiling. One of these panels fell between passengers’ seats in one of the two executive coaches, narrowly missing Subash Chandra Dubey. “I was travelling with my family. All the services provided in the train were very nice but I got scared when the panel fell,” said Dubey. The panel was fixed by technicians present on-board. Thorough maintenance and inspection of the train will be conducted by Indian Rail Catering Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), Western Railway (WR) and Rail Coach Factory (Kapurthala) technicians before the train begins its commercial operations on January 19. “The train was handed over to us by RCF and the fittings were inspected by them. After the incident, we will check the fittings and all safety aspects before the express’s first commercial run,” said a senior IRCTC official. Meanwhile, MNS Railway Kamgar Sena, a union affiliated to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), has demanded that the name of the train should be displayed in Marathi, in addition to English, Hindi and Gujarati. A delegation of the union led by Jitendra Patil also objected to Gujarati food being served on the train and staff members wearing Gujarati dress, and submitted its memorandum to WR divisional railway manager and IRCTC.
The Mumbai Central Government Railway Police (GRP) on Thursday arrested a 32-year-old mobile thief, Abuzar Abubakar, after he clicked a selfie from a stolen mobile phone which got uploaded on the victim’s social media account.
According to the police, the complainant, Vaibhav Gurav, 32, a Wadala resident, stated in his complaint that on Tuesday, around 1 am, he was at Dadar station to book a ticket for Konkan Kanya Express.
While waiting for ticket counters to open, Gurav slept around 4am. When he woke up, he found that his bag was missing.
Shailendra Dhiwar senior inspector Mumbai central GRP said, “We had registered an FIR against an unknown person under section 379 of the IPC.” On Wednesday, one of Gurav’s friends found an unknown person’s picture on his social media account and informed him about the same. On Thursday, the victim informed the police that someone has uploaded a selfie on one of his social media accounts. “On Thursday around 11:30pm, we spotted the suspect loitering at the same spot where Gurav was sleeping and we nabbed him,” another officer said. During questioning the accused revealed that he was checking the mobile phone’s camera quality and clicked several selfies. He then opened a social media account on the phone and started clicking selfies using photo filters which is when the picture got uploaded.
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