MUMBAI, June 2: Police arrested Bollywood director Kaizad Gustad on Wednesday on accusations of negligence causing the death of his British assistant, Nadia Khan, who was struck by a train while shooting a movie last week.

A Mumbai court ordered Gustad, regarded as one of Bollywood's rising young directors, to be held in jail for eight days while police investigated the case.

Gustad and another assistant, Ashish Udeshi, were being held on accusations of "making a false complaint to the police, negligence causing death and not taking proper safety measures," police official Ramdas Mathre said.

Nadi Khan, 27, who graduated in film and media studies from North London University, was hit by a train at a railway station while filming "Bombay Central", a movie about urban commuters.

Nadi Khan had travelled to Bombay to get experience in film-making and was working as an assistant director on the set.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Usha Iyer told the court the movie crew had no permission to shoot in the part of the station where Nadi Khan was killed. "Permission had been granted to shoot on the first platform of the railway station and not on the fourth platform," Iyer said.

Nadi Khan was speaking on her mobile phone when she was hit by a suburban train on a track reserved for express locomotives. She was declared dead on arrival at hospital. -AFP