Sheikh Rahmatulla was on his way to Amritsar from Delhi when some passengers boarded the Jalandhar-Amritsar Express at Muzaffarnagar yesterday and asked him to vacate the seat, according to Government Railway Police.
Soon a confrontation took place following which the passengers threw him out of the train, they said.
The victim was rushed to a district hospital in a serious condition where he was declared dead. The body has been sent for postmortem.