However, when India Today's reporter went undercover to assess the ground reality, and the findings revealed heartless indifference to passenger safety. At Santacruz station on Mumbai's western suburbs, an RPF cop advised the journalist to revisit after a week. Similarly, at Mumbai's Ghatkopar and Goregaon stations, India Today's reporter encountered no railway guards as he sat on their footbridges to sell toys during peak hours. Not a single cop was there on patrol to stop invasion of commuter space on narrow pedestrian overpasses, less than a week after the tragedy at Elphinstone Station. WATCH VIDEO | Elphinstone stampede: Phool gir gaya remark misheard as pul gir gaya a possible trigger?

Source: India Today October 05, 2017 15:56 UTC