The Malabar Hill police said that the control room on Monday night got a call from a man who identified himself as Mahesh Pawar. He informed the control room that while on his way from Lower Parel to Charni Road he saw four men armed with automatic weapons in the train. Senior police inspector Iqbal Shaikh from Malabar Hill police station said, “He also informed the control room that when one of the men saw him observing them, he threatened him at gunpoint against raising an outcry. Pawar further informed that while the man was taking the revolver from his bag, he saw magazines of automatic weapons in the bag. As Pawar’s place of work, as given by him, fell under our jurisdiction, we got a call from the control room to question him.” 

The officials from the Malabar Hill police station went to meet Pawar at Charni Road where he claimed to be working as a night security guard at a bungalow on Dungarshi Road. “When we met Pawar we discovered that he was absolutely drunk and was incoherent. He told us that he stays at Naigaon police quarters and that his father is a retired police constable presently staying in Satara,” said Shaikh.

Shaikh also said that as the case deals with railway security it has been transferred to the Churchgate Railway Protection Force.