Mumbai: Heckled on train, ‘stone man’ killed two in a fit of rage

MUMBAI: Suresh Shankar Gauda, the 40-year-old man arrested for brutally smashing the heads of two people sleeping on a footpath two weeks ago, told the police that he killed them because in a fit of rage over an unrelated incident.
He was humiliated on the train by co-passengers who asked him to deboard the coach, saying he looked like a drug addict. Gauda was also arrested in 2015 for a similar murder in Kurla, where a man’s head was smashed. Gauda was acquitted.
The recent two murders took place on October 23. Gauda told police that he had taken a train from Ambernath that day, as he usually would, bringing goat food to sell in south Mumbai. He had wanted to travel till Sandhurst Road, but some co-passenger called him a drug addict and asked him to get down at Byculla instead. This is when he got angry and took out his anger on the two victims. “We checked CCTV footage from Byculla station, where he can be seen getting down from the train,” said an officer from Byculla police station.