MUMBAI: A CCTV footage showed a man panicking and fleeing across a foot overbridge at Malad railway station shortly after a college teacher was stabbed to death inside a crowded local train on Saturday evening. The Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested the accused, identified as Omkar Eknath Shinde (27), a daily-wage labourer, within 12 hours of the crime. He was apprehended from the Kurar area in Mumbai’s western suburbs, officials said on Sunday. Police said the victim, Alok Kumar Singh (33), a professor at Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, was attacked following a minor argument while alighting from a Borivali-bound local train at Malad station around 6 pm. According to investigators, the argument escalated suddenly, following which Shinde allegedly stabbed Singh in the stomach with a sharp object on platform number 1. The accused then took advantage of the rush at the station and fled, leaving Singh bleeding on the platform. Singh was rushed to Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital in Kandivali, where doctors declared him brought dead. “CCTV footage showed a man panicking, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, fleeing across a foot overbridge shortly after the attack. Based on the footage and witness accounts, we identified and tracked the accused,” a GRP official said. Police said several commuters who were present in the train compartment witnessed the argument and the assault. Their statements are being recorded as part of the investigation. CCTV footage from Malad station and previous stations on the route is also being examined. Shinde, who works as a metal polisher, has been arrested under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Police are also trying to ascertain the exact weapon used in the attack. Singh lived in Malad East with his wife and had been teaching mathematics and statistics in the junior college section since 2024. Colleagues described him as calm and soft-spoken and said the incident had left the college community in shock.
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