Alighting from train during brief halt costs youth his life Rly Employee Comes Under Train In Bid To Board It Again

Nitasha Natu TNN 

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Mumbai: Six people died in separate train-related incidents in the city on Monday. Around 2.30pm, a 22-year-old canine trainer, Sudhir Giradkar, fell off a fast local between Sion and Kurla while on his way from his Thane residence to Byculla. 
    GRP officials said he had sustained injuries to his ribs and was pronounced dead at Sion Hospital. On going through his phone log, the GRP found his family’s contact numbers in Nagpur and informed them. 
    Just 15 minutes before the incident, a suspected Nepal national had a fatal fall off a local in the same Sion-Kurla stretch. He had sustained head injuries and could not be identified. Officials said he was travelling in a Down local. 
    Ashish Singh, a railway employee, slipped into the gap between the platform and the August Kranti Rajdhani Express at Andheri station in the evening. 
    The 25-year-old was a hotel management grad and a new recruit with the IRCTC. 
    Singh, who worked as an assistant catering manager and was on duty on the train, got off to buy something when the train halted briefly at Andheri around 6pm. 
    When the train started to roll out, he sprinted to board it again but lost his footing and slipped under the train as it picked up speed. The train ran over his abdomen. 
    Singh was declared dead at Cooper Hospital, a senior GRP official said. 
    Collegian Rupesh Chauhan, whose right arm was amputated above the elbow after his accident on Thursday, was reportedly critical since his admission to St George’s Hospital. 
    Meanwhile, Chauhan, who had also suffered a serious head injury, had been puton ventilator in the ICU. 
    The UP native’s blood pressure kept dropping continuously, said hospital medical superintendant Dr Jagdish Bhavani. 
    Officials from the CST Government Railway Police said he was spotted performing stunts on a CR local. 
    “He lost balance and fell off the train after hitting a pole as the train was entering Masjid station. Passengers on the platform alerted the motorman as they saw him fall,” said senior inspector Surendra Deshmukh.

UNSCHEDULED STOP: The breakaway coaches of the 12-car Kalyan-bound local train on Monday evening