24 hours on, no trace of youth who fell into Thane creek

Twenty-four hours after a 17-year-old boy fell off a running train into Thane creek, the police is yet to find him.

Shivam Sitaram Mishra was heading to Mumbra for a summer job with his friends when the incident happened, around 4.30pm on Sunday. Mishra and three of his friends were performing stunts in the CST-Kalyan train by sticking their hands and legs out. Mishra, however, lost his grip over the grab pole while performing one of his stunts and fell into the Thane creek.

Police officials as well family members of the minor have sent out hunting parties to locate him since the incident. “The station master called us when Mishra’s friends got off the train and informed him of the incident. We headed for the creek immediately but could not locate him. Mishra and his friends were heading towards Mumbra for a catering job they had taken over the summer holidays and he belongs to a lower-middle class family,” said police inspector Suresh Patil of the Thane government police force.

Mr Patil said that it is possible that the boy drowned after falling off the train and due to the vastness of the Thane creek it has become difficult for the search parties to locate the body. The entire Thane creek is around 1,690 hectares in area of which 896 are covered by mangroves into which the police suspect that Mishra had fallen onto.