India, July 1 -- The Borivali Government Railway Police (GRP) on Tuesday informed a metropolitan magistrate that they had finally recovered the knife allegedly used in the June 23 fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old salesman aboard a local train.

According to the police, the knife was found on the night of the incident by three employees of a restaurant near the exit of platforms 2 and 3 at Borivali railway station. Unaware of its possible connection to the crime, the employees had handed it over to their manager, who kept it at the restaurant.

After coming across videos of the stabbing on social media days later, the manager suspected it could be the weapon used in the attack and approached the police on Monday, officers told the court. Th...