Woman jumps on tracks at Thane station, rescued by railway cops

THANE: A 31-year-old woman, who attempted suicide by jumping on the tracks at Thane railway station on Tuesday was rescued by alert railway policemen. She was upset at not being able to secure bail for her husband lodged in the Taloja jail in a cheating case.
The railway police said that the Andheri-based woman had come to Thane to visit her lawyer to move a bail application for her husband along with her daughters aged two and 12.At around 2.40pm, the woman jumped on the tracks in presence of her children at the CSMT-end of platform number 2. "There was some misunderstanding between the woman and her lawyer due to which the latter probably failed to move the bail plea in time. Upset, the woman in a spur of the moment jumped onto the tracks," said GRP constable Sameer Gothankar, who was at the station and witnessed the incident.
Even as Gothankar and his colleague constable Anil Deshmukh reached the spot, two constables from the railway protection force, Mukesh Yadav and Pooja Arya, who were patrolling nearby, had already jumped on to the tracks and tried to move the woman from the path of an oncoming train.
While the policemen managed to signal and halt an oncoming Titwala slow train, they later dragged the woman away from the tracks. She was taken to the RPF outpost where she was counselled by senior cops and later escorted to her home with a lady RPF constable.