A thief who stole a man’s phone worth Rs 50,000 from a local train was run over by a train coming from the opposite direction near Cotton Green railway station. According to a report in The Times of India, when the owner of the phone tried calling his phone number to track his phone, the call was attended by a constable who told him that it was recovered from a dead body lying on the tracks.

The incident happened on Tuesday when the owner of the phone, Chirag Gupta (36), a resident of Ghatkopar, was on his way home from work after boarding a CSMT-bound train from Vashi station at around 5.20 pm. When he dozed off, the thief cut through his trouser’s pocket and tried to escape by jumping from the train, only to be knocked down by a train coming from the opposite direction.