Click to play videoA 25-year-old man hailing from Uttar Pradesh died after being beaten up on board a local train from Khopoli to Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station.
Dharamdev Rai and three other labourers - Vijendra Rai (35), Satyaprakash Kaushal Rai and Shiv Kumar Verma (both 25) - from UP were on their way to Kurla on Tuesday afternoon when they were beaten up on the running train by 8-10 people.
Rai's friends have alleged that they were beaten by Marathi-speaking youth, after they learnt that the labourers were North Indians.
"After the train left the station, some people entered our compartment. They asked us where we were from. When they learnt we are from UP they made us sit separately. Then they first verbally abused us and then started beating us up," Dharamdev Rai's friend Virendra Kumar Rai claimed.
The youths started beating all the four as the train approached Karjat. While his friends managed to escape with minor injuries, Rai was beaten up brutally.
Rai was admitted to the Dubey hospital in Badlapur but succumbed to his injuries.
The incident happened at around 1412-1415 hrs IST on Tuesday and rain was declared dead on arrival at a hospital in Badlapur at about 1530 hrs IST.
The post-mortem report confirmed death due to puncturing of the liver at about 2200 hrs IST.
Rai, who hails from Sant Kabir Nagar in Faizabad in UP, had been working in Mumbai for the past few months.
Government Railway Police (GRP) Commissioner AK Sharma told CNN-IBN that a case has been registered for murder and rioting.
"Post-mortem report confirmed that he was beaten up. He died because of injuries to his liver," Sharma said.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati asked the Central Government to control the ongoing violence against North Indians in Maharashtra.
She also announced Rs 2 lakh as compensation for the victim's family.
Meanwhile, 10 people have been detained by GRP from Khopoli for questioning.
The tragic incident comes just a few days after Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena activists attacked North Indian students who were to appear for a railway recruitment examination.
A youth from Bihar Rahul Raj was killed by the Mumbai Police on Monday after he had allegedly hijacked a bus at Kurla saying he wanted revenge against the Raj Thackeray.
Rahul had apparently shot at and injured the conductor and a passenger on the bus.
His bullet-riddled body was handed over to his cousin and grandmother by the JJ Hospital authority in Mumbai after post-mortem on Tuesday and it reached Patna via New Delhi by an Indian flight at around 2100 hrs IST.
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