Karjat railway station hawker helps police arrest seven of the nine suspects who threw man from a train in motion, killing him

Yesterday, seven of the nine men, who murdered Dilip Salat (21) by brutally beating him and then throwing him out of the running train, were arrested by the Karjat GRP.

While two of the accused are still at large, the arrests would never have been possible without Santosh Pawar (name changed), a hawker at Karjat railway station.

The night that was

In the evening of September 17, Salat and his wife Mala, brother and sister-in-law along with their child boarded the unreserved bogey of the Verawal Express from Pune for Baroda.

"The three accused Lakhan Jadhav, Ganesh Gaikwad and Irfan Sheikh were in the same bogey," said Senior PI Karjat GRP, S S Dhumal.

Six friends wait at Karjat station, while the accused get off. Illustrations/Sameer Pawar