Overview
- Police identified the deceased as Prathamesh Nitin Tinde, 18, of Kalepadal, and Tanmay Mahendra Tupe, 18, and Tushar Shinde, 19, of Gopalpatti.
- The Pune–Daund DEMU departed Pune station around 8:15 pm, with the collision reported between roughly 8:30 and 9:00 pm on Sunday.
- The deaths occurred on the Manjari Budruk stretch near Gopalpatti, with teams from Hadapsar police and the Government Railway Police responding.
- Preliminary accounts suggest five to six youths were on the track, with some possibly sitting there, which investigators describe as an early line of inquiry.
- An accidental death case has been registered, the bodies were sent for postmortem, and officers are searching for eyewitnesses in the absence of CCTV coverage.