Vikram Vijayan, a resident of Sector 3, HSR Layout, died in a freak accident on the night of Monday, December 17. Employed with Wipro as a software engineer, the 28-year-old had gone to the Carmelaram railway station off Sarjapur Road to see off his parents who had come to visit him.
Vikram with his parents
Since the train stops only for a minute, the rail began to move when he was nearing the seat where his parents had booked their birth. Immediately, he placed their luggage and rushed out with a hurried goodbye to his parents. But he made a fatal mistake, according to the railway police.
He jumped out of the train in the opposite direction of the train’s movement. Gravity came into play here as he panicked and was sucked between the train and the platform. Eye witnesses say that his hands, legs and head were detached from the rest of his body as he came under the wheels of the train.
Watching his son fall, even his father Vijayan jumped off the train, and incurred severe injuries but was declared safe after a hospital visit. The parents were taking the Yeshwanthpur-Kannur express train to reach Palakkad when the incident occurred. A case of natural death is registered by the Byappanahalli railway police.
