01 August,2019 11:07 AM IST | | Rajendra B Aklekar
Picture of the deceased railway engineer Vimal Rai. Courtesy/ Rajendra B. Aklekar
An on-duty railway engineer who was inspecting railway tracks near Kalyan was hit by a speeding local train on Wednesday.
Vimal Rai, while inspecting tracks, was run over at 4:43 pm on the CSMT-bound mainline track, between Thakurli-Kalyan. He was immediately brought to Kalyan by a local and was admitted to AIMS Hospital and then shifted to Fortis Hospital Kalyan where he died.
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Rai, who was just above age 40, was a hard-working officer and was a field man. Senior officials said that he had co-ordinated the Badlapur incident in the weekend.
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