A 19-year-old youth fell onto the Namma Metro tracks at Attiguppe Metro Station on the Purple Line around 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 21. He was hit by an oncoming metro train and was killed on the spot.
The deceased, identified as Dhruv Jatin Thakkar, was a first year student of the B.A. LL.B. programme at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and hailed from Mumbai. As the train ran over the boy, police had a tough time recovering his body from the tracks.
