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Man arrested for throwing his wife in the path of a running train at Mumbai’s Mulund railway station

The Mumbai Government Railway Police said the accused frequently fought with his wife, who also filed two police complaints against him in the past. The Mumbai Government Railway Police (GRP) Monday arrested a 42-year-old electrician for allegedly killing his wife by pushing her in the path of an on...

By The Indian Express

• March 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM

Man arrested for throwing his wife in the path of a running train at Mumbai’s Mulund railway station Photo: The Indian Express

The Mumbai Government Railway Police said the accused frequently fought with his wife, who also filed two police complaints against him in the past.

The Mumbai Government Railway Police (GRP) Monday arrested a 42-year-old electrician for allegedly killing his wife by pushing her in the path of an oncoming train at the Mulund railway station in front of their son Saturday.

According to the police, the accused, identified as Raju Gupta, frequently fought with his wife, Pushpa, 36, who also filed two police complaints against him in the past.

An officer said the incident took place on Saturday when Raju Gupta, Pushpa and their younger son,13, were at the Mulund Police Station when the couple began fighting.

“It was during the argument that Gupta pushed her on the tracks in a fit of rage.

She was run over by a Kalyan local,” an officer said.

Soon after the incident, Gupta and his son took a train and fled to Surat .

The railway police were alerted about the incident, following which a murder case was registered, and the police launched a manhunt for Gupta.

They traced him to Surat, from where he was placed under arrest.

The police also found that the woman’s brother, Kamlesh, who is in the Indian Army, had come to the couple’s Mulund residence a few days ago.

When he realised that Gupta was still harassing his sister, he decided to leave with her and the couple’s elder son and went to Mulund Railway Station Saturday.

An officer said the accused was produced before the court and remanded to police custody.

In a separate case, GRP registered an attempt to murder case against an unidentified person who flung an 11-year-old boy selling pens in local trains from the train at the GTB Nagar Railway Station.

The boy sustained injuries and was admitted to the Sion Hospital.

The incident took place on March 14, and the police registered an attempt to murder case in the matter.

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