A 25-year-old man was killed by some people on the moving Hyderabad-Delhi Dakshin Express train after he confronted them for stealing his money on Thursday, police said in Nagpur.

The incident took place in Telangana early on Thursday after which the Government Railway Police (GRP) detained four people when the train arrived at Nagpur in Maharashtra, news agency PTI reported.

The victim, Shashank Ramsingh Raj, was a resident of Rajapur Kaimhara in Uttar Pradesh`s Lakhimpur Kheri. He was travelling from Secunderabad to Jhansi, the police said.

Raj and his friends were sleeping near a toilet in the train`s general compartment when four people allegedly stole Rs 1,700 from his pocket around 3.30 am, a Government Railway Police (GRP) officer said.