On January 18, he boarded a local train with a phone in his hand and dreams of reaching home after work. Minutes later, Ritesh Rakesh Yerunkar was fighting for his life on a hospital bed, his left leg amputated after a phone snatching inside a moving train sent him crashing onto the tracks.

“One day I was simply travelling home, and the next I was lying in a hospital bed without my left leg,” said Ritesh Rakesh Yerunkar, the 30-year-old salesman whose life changed in a matter of seconds.