Farid Khan Pathan died of cardiac rest as crowd went berserk after Shah Rukh arrived at the Vadodara railway station on Monday night by August Kranti Rajdhani Express.
He was the relative of a journalist, who was travelling in the same train with Shah Rukh.
Hours after the incident occurred, some sections blamed Shah Rukh for the tragedy. But the deceased's mother backed the actor saying "his promotional gimmick has nothing to do with her son's unfortunate demise".
"The incident has nothing to do with SRK's 'Raees' promotional event, my son fell prey to the crowd and succumbed to death due to suffocation. All we want is prayers from everyone for my son," she said in a statement.
Farid's niece, journalist Samina Shaikh, also said that the actor's team ensured that she and her family reached her uncle's funeral safely.
"We got down at Ratlam and SRK's team arranged a car for us to Vadodara to attend my uncle's burial," Shaikh said.
The journalist also spoke about how Shah Rukh broke down while consoling her.
"When I narrated the incident to Shah Rukh, he was in tears as he could genuinely feel the pain that I and my family were going through.
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