CHENNAI: An RPF constable saved the life of a 22-year-old passenger who was about to fall into tracks when he tried to board a running train at Chennai Central railway station on Friday. The constable who was standing nearby, dragged the youth away from the tracks. The passenger was not injured.
Poovarasan, 22, from Vilankurichi in Coimbatore, was trying to board the train to Coimbatore which had started to move out of the platform at around 6.10am. CCTV footage shows the man approaching the train at the end of the platform and rushing to board carrying two heavy bags.
He managed to get hold of the railing of the door but lost balance because of the weight of the bags and started to hang from the train and was about to fall into the tracks.
Ram Kisan Meena, the constable, who was approaching platform 11 to attend to another train spotted the passenger and pulled him away from the moving trains.
"I was doing my duty. This is the first time I got a chance to save a passenger. I was walking to the platform when I spotted the passenger about to fall from the train. I rushed and pulled him away impulsively. I was there at the right time. It would have been disastrous if no one was there to help the passenger. He was not injured," said Meena.
This is the second time an RPF constable is saving the life of a passenger in the last couple of months in Chennai. In April, a constable Mathuri saved the life of a man by preventing him from falling on the tracks at Egmore railway station. In this case, the passenger was trying to get down from a moving train.
