Ahmedabad’s Kalupur railway station witnessed an uncanny behaviour of a man who jumped from the foot overbridge onto the Ahmedabad-Chennai Navjeevan SF Express at 9.15 pm on Thursday.
The bizarre incident caused a commotion among the railway authorities. According to sources, the train was halted at the platform when the man jumped onto coach S-2.
Upon learning of the incident, the power supply was immediately cut off from the overhead cables. Railway Police Force (RPF) personnel climbed onto the coach and managed to bring the man down. It was found that the man was mentally unstable.
The RPF will take further action in the matter. Due to this incident, the scheduled departure at 9.25 of the Navjeevan SF Express was delayed by half an hour.
Last month, a mentally unstable man climbed up the locomotive of Bandra Express at Surat Railway Station which led the authorities to turn off the electric supply.
The man sat on the engine, and when RPF personnel convinced him to get down, he threatened to touch the electric cables.
This led to a delay of 45 minutes for the trains that were scheduled to depart and arrive at the platform.