Family members of the victim at the police station

HOWRAH: A 27-year-old electrical engineer from Jamshedpur died after he jumped off a running Sambalpur Express at Uluberia station to catch a man who had snatched his iPhone. He died of his injuries before he could be taken to hospital.

The victim, Saurabh Ghosh , was on his way home in Jamshedpur on Saturday night and sitting by a window seat at the end of the compartment. Around 11pm, when the train stopped at Uluberia station, he was talking on his newly bought iPhone. Soon, as the train started leaving the station, a man — who was already inside the train — snatched the phone and jumped off the compartment. Ghosh, who stood shocked for a while, then decided to chase the snatcher. The moment he jumped, his feet touched the platform and he fell on ground. His head banged against stones and Ghosh became unconscious.

Locals and GRP rushed to the spot and he was taken to the Uluberia Hospital. He died on the way.

Ghosh, an engineer from Jamshedpur, had come to Kolkata after he joined a factory at Bauria, Howrah. Successful in his professional life, Ghosh walked up the career ladder fast and was appointed in-charge of the two units at the factory.

He had bought a flat at Mukundapur and started staying there. A gadget freak, Ghosh, bought the iPhone barely 15 days back and was quite excited about its features.

“He would spend a lot of time digging into the phone’s feature. It was very dear to him,” said his father Sanjay Ghosh. His family members reached Howrah in the morning and his last rites were performed at Howrah on Sunday afternoon.

“His father, who is also an engineer, has asked for the iPhone as that is his last memory,” said an official with the Howrah rural police.

“The iPhone is quite sensitive to his family now as the youth died while trying to recover that. Unlike other phones, iPhone is comparatively easier to trace and we are trying to trace it,” said Debarshi Datta, SRP Kharagpur.

