Mumbai, August 31: A 19-year-old mobile thief, part of the Fatka gang, responsible for the death of a railway passenger, who died 10 days back is finally caught and he is in jail. Thane GRP arrested the accused who had snatched the mobile phone of a passenger from a moving train, the latter had jumped but died due to fatal injuries. According to a DNA report, the victim boarded Kalyan train from Kalwa station' in Thane, he was standing near the door of a general compartment. Mumbai: Boy Jumps Off Running Local Train After Snatching Mobile In Mumbra, Watch Video

CCTV footage which recorded the entire incident the RPF was able to nab Solanki who is a resident of Shantinagar slums in Kalwa. He was arrested under sections 304, 394 of the Indian penal code and various sections of Indian Railway act. He was produced in Kalyan railway court which remanded him to police custody till September 3. In 2017, he was arrested for mobile snatching at Kalyan stations.

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A similar incident had happened where a boy jumped off a local train in Mumbai’s Mumbra station after allegedly snatching a girl's mobile. The girl also jumped off the train to catch the accused. She got severely injured and was admitted to a local hospital. The boy was arrested by the police and has been identified as Ansari. The video of the entire incident has surfaced on social media.

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