A 19-year-old student took his life in Maharashtra's Thane district after a group of people allegedly assaulted him on a local train following an argument over not speaking in Marathi, police said on Thursday (November 20, 2025).
A first-year science student, died at his apartment in Kalyan East on Tuesday evening, an official said.
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" He was travelling to his college in Mulund on a local train on Tuesday morning when the assault took place between Kalyan and Thane stations," Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kalyanji Gete, said.
He said the teen's father has alleged that he asked a passenger to move a little ahead in a crowded compartment, when the latter reprimanded him for not speaking in Marathi, and the matter escalated.
