Mumbai: The recent spate of ‘sabotage’ incidents on railway tracks don’t seem to be ending as the railway police found an L-shaped 9-meter long 50 kg metal piece on the rail tracks between Dockyard Road and Reay Road stations on Tuesday night at around 11 pm.
The government railway police’s (GRP) crime branch arrested two drug addicts in the incident, who had stolen the metal piece and had accidentally dropped it from a running train, which led to a scare among security agencies. Investigators, however, said a disaster was averted as the wheels of a local train touched the piece after which the incident came to light and was reportedly to the authorities at around 11.15pm.
The accused were identified as Mokar Ali Shahur Ali Shaikh (21) and Hussain Shaikh (48) who were apprehended based on a tip-off. They were also identified based on the CCTV camera footage from the Sandhurst Road railway station, from where they boarded a local train. “Both the accused are addicts. They wanted to sell the piece in scrap at Reay Road for easy money,” GRP officials said.
Meanwhile, motorman A.K. Upreti who spotted the two-men panic and leave piece of rail on the tracks said since Dockyard was one of the peculiar stations where the train climbs an incline he was able to make out the figures in the dark.
