Man attempts suicide by threatening to jump on wire at Boisar station

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A high voltage drama was witnessed at Boisar railway station on Monday morning when a 23-year-old youth tried to commit suicide by jumping onto 25000 Volt high tension wire from the foot overbridge. An official disconnected the power supply of the wire and rescued the man safely but during the rescue operation, the railway services were interrupted for two hours.

According to the police sources, the rescued youth, identified as Mohammed Shaikh, is a resident of Boisar East, Dandi Pada village but he is originally from Bihar Samastipur district.

The incident that looked straight out of a Bollywood drama took place around 9 am. Shaikh climbed the high tension wire above the bridge with a knife in his hand. The Boisar railway administration officials and the passengers saw what happened and immediately called the fire brigade for help. When the fire brigade officials reached the spot he put the knife to his neck and asked the firefighters to stay away.

A social worker Umakant Bharti finally convinced him to step down of the footbridge after a conversation. However, the drama did not end, as soon as he descended, he was rattled to see the crowd and attempted to escape but the cops with the help of the crowd caught him. The train services(down line) finally resumed after a while.

Shaikh was brought to the Boisar GRP office for an enquiry. During the interrogation, he revealed that he hailed from Samastipur district in Bihar and had come to Boisar a few days ago and was residing at his in-law's house. There was a family dispute due to which he was agitated and tried to commit suicide.

RPF inspector Basant Rai while speaking to mid-day said, "An FIR has been registered by his in-laws against Shaikh at MIDC police station. In the meantime, we have also booked him for the delay in the rail services on down line under various section of Railway act including 145, 147, 156, 174 c against him.

The incident took place at around 9:05 am due to which the down line was delayed up to fifty minutes, he added.

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