(From left) Abhishek Shukla, who fell off the local near Malad, motorman C A Thakur and stationmaster Prabhat Dube

While the railways has been constantly receiving flak for treating accident victims callously, a motorman, commuters and railway staff raced against time to save a student, who fell off a train between Malad and Goregaon on August 8. "My son is alive because the motorman, C A Thakur, and railway staff put his life before everything else," said Pinakin Shukla, the student's father.