Mumbai Police Officers Suspended for Neglecting Ailing Passenger at Reay Road Station

Mumbai, 10th March 2024: Two police officers in Mumbai have been suspended for their failure to ensure timely assistance to ailing Allauddin Mujjahid at a railway station. After collapsing on platform no. 2 at Reay Road station, CCTV footage captured Mujjahid being put in the luggage compartment of a train by the officers who mistook his condition for drug addiction. Sadly, Mujahid was found dead the next day during a routine inspection at Goregaon station.

Mujjahid, a salesman, had boarded a train from Sewri and got off at Reay Road on February 14. The officers, identified as railway police constable Vijay Khandekar and Maharashtra Security Force policeman Mahesh Andale, failed to provide medical assistance and instead placed him in the train’s luggage compartment. The post-mortem report revealed Mujjahid’s cause of death as a brain haemorrhage.

An accidental death report was initially registered, but after reviewing CCTV footage from Goregaon station to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, the police identified the officers’ negligence. The deceased leaves behind a wife and a 19-year-old son in Sewri. The officers have been suspended and booked under IPC sections for causing death due to negligence, and a departmental inquiry has been initiated against them.