A GRP team sent to find the boy could not locate him, but his family found him the next day exactly where he had fallen off the train. But it was too late by then.A 16-year-old boy lay injured for 11 hours after falling off a Central Railway train on Monday night after the Government Railway Police (GRP) called off the search for him after a perfunctory effort. The boy tragically died just hours after his family found him the next morning exactly where he had fallen off the train.The boy’s mother, who along with his elder brother and friends started looking for him on Tuesday morning after spending the night scouring the hospitals in the area, has blamed the railway’s cavalier attitude towards accident victims for her son’s death.Deva Pawar, who was returning to Badlapur with a friend after visiting a Shiva shrine in Ambernath, fell off the train between the two stations at around 8.40 pm. When his friend --Rajendra Shinde -- informed the GRP at Badlapur, two constables accompanied him on the next train to Ambernath. But all that the two constables, who rode in the motorman’s cabin with Rajendra, do was ask the motorman to slow down the train at spots where Rajendra told them his friend had slipped off the footboard and flash their search lights.They repeated the process on their way back to Ambernath before declaring the search unsuccessful at 10 pm and informing Deva’s family about the accident.Since the GRP told them the boy was not found where he had fallen off the train, Deva’s mother and elder brother Akshay spent the entire night scouring the hospitals in the area. And all this while Deva, a class 9 student of a municipal school is Badlapur who worked as delivery boy in his spare time to support the family, lay bleeding just six to seven feet away from the tracks where he had fallen off the train. “It’s heart-breaking. My little brother lay all night by the tracks and the GRP personnel could not locate him,” said Deva’s elder brother Akshay.According Deva’s mother Babita Pawar, when they found her boy he was breathing and mumbling in pain. His clothes were soaked in blood and he was not able to recognise either his mother or brother.Deva was first taken to Dutta Krupa clinic in Badlapur, where he was refused admission. At the Ulhasnagar Central Hospital, where he was rushed next, the boy was declared dead on admission.Railway activist Samir Zaveri, who lost his legs in a railway accident in 1989, and has since been devoted fulltime to campaigning for better emergency medical services for rail accident victims, believes Deva’s life could have been saved if the GRP had done its job. “After the GRP could not find the boy in the first attempt, they should have informed the control and sent another team on foot to look for the boy. The search lights used by the constables of the RPF as well as the GRP are of very poor quality. Of course, they could not locate the boy by flashing these torches from a moving train,” he said. Zaveri said the private hospital, which refused to treat the boy, should also be prosecuted.Deputy Commissioner of Police, GRP, Rupali Ambure, however, said every effort was made to locate the boy in the night. “The GRP along with the pointsmen and the station master looked for the boy in the night but could not find him.” When asked if the GRP could have sent a team on foot to look for the boy, Ambure refused to comment.