The Kurla GRP have arrested a 42-year-old hawker involved in a bag snatching case, in which a 50-year-old doctor lost his hand while trying to save his wife as they both fell from a moving train at Kurla. The accused has been identified as Mohammad Saif alias Asgar Ali Chowdhury, a resident of Delhi, who is wanted in multiple cases across Mumbai.

The victim, Dr Yogesh Deshmukh, was travelling with his wife Dr Deepali Deshmukh and their nine-year-old child on the Nanded Express from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus. Police said that Saif earlier worked as a hawker in trains, selling mobile headphones, but a few years ago he turned to chain snatching and bag snatching on the Kurla-Panvel route.