‘Techie may have been in a hurry’

BENGALURU: A 38-year-old Bengaluru-based software engineer died after he came under the wheels of the Chennai Mail while attempting to alight from it at KR Puram railway station on Thursday.Cantonment railway police said K Kiran Kumar , a resident of Apoorva Paradise apartment on Thambu Chetty Palya Main Road at Akshaya Nagar, near Ramamurthy Nagar, tried to get down from the train though it was not slated to stop at KR Puram.From Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, Kiran worked as project lead with IT major Wipro and was on deputation to Zurich, Switzerland. He came to Bengaluru last week and visited his family members, including his newborn son, in Nellore. He left Nellore on Thursday night, arrived in Chennai by road and boarded Chennai Mail to reach Bengaluru. He was supposed to return to Zurich.The train approached KR Puram station around 4.30am. “Its first stop in Bengaluru was at East Railway Station, near Fraser Town, that comes after KR Puram. Kiran checked the train status on a mobile app and rushed towards the door when it reached KR Puram. When the train slowed down, he jumped out. He lost his balance and fell in the gap between the platform and the train.”Run over by the train, his body was cut into several pieces, police said. Police suspect Kiran might have tried to save time to reach his flat earlier. His body has been shifted to Bowring Hospital. Railway police said they traced Kiran’s family via his cellphone contacts. “Kiran’s father fell unconscious when he heard about Kiran’s death. He was rushed to hospital, delaying the family’s journey to Bengaluru. They are likely to reach late Thursday night. We’ll conduct postmortem on Friday,” police said.