Mumbai, Nov 11 (PTI) Central Railway (CR) General Manager Vijay Kumar, who assumed charge just over a month ago, passed away in Mumbai in the early hours of Tuesday, officials said.

He was 59.

Preliminary medical opinion suggested a possible cardiac arrest in sleep as the cause of death, but the exact cause will be ascertained after the post-mortem examination, railway officials said. Show Full Article

Kumar was rushed to the Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai, where doctors declared him dead, a CR spokesperson said.

Kumar, an officer of the 1988 batch of the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME), assumed charge as the General Manager of the CR on October 1, 2025.

Railway officials said the last rites will be performed on Wednesday morning at the Chandanwadi crematorium in Mar

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