Women commuters fight over seat in Mumbai local train, two including cop injured

Screengrab from the viral video of the incident

A verbal argument over a seat in a Mumbai local train resulted in injuring a woman cop and an other passenger on Wednesday night, the police said. The incident took place at around 8 pm on the Panvel bound local train.

A police official said, a woman and her grand daughter, who had boarded the local from Thane and another woman who caught the train at Koparkhairane were waiting for a seat to get vacant. A seat got vacant at Turbhe station following which the grand mother attempted her grand daughter to get seat. However at the same time the other woman also tried to sit on the seat.

The video of the incident has also been going viral on social media.

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"The two got into a heated argument and later they got into a fight in which other commuters and a woman cop sustained injuries on her head," a senior police official said.