Cops talk waiter out of suicide after tense 150 mins
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Find Him Mentally Disturbed, Hand Him Over To His Employer
Awaiter from a Bandra
restaurant tried to jump off the Bandra-Worli Sea Link on Monday night,
but a police team talked him out of it and pulled him back
to safety . The incident lasted two and a half hours. Sampat
Chaudhary (24) took a cab from the Bandra-end of the bridge and asked
the driver to stop half way . When he got out and started walking
towards the railing, the taxi driver questioned his intention before
driving off. Chaudhary replied that he wanted to take pictures. It was
9.15 pm.
Soon, a security guard on patrol spotted Chaudhary hanging on to the railings on the outer edge of the bridge. The waiter shouted he was going to end his life. The guard then stopped a motorist coming from the Worli-end.
The police and the fire brigade reached the spot--pole number 50, in the middle of the sea link--by 9.30 pm. “On receiving an alert from the police control room, sub-inspector Santosh Kanse and I, along with three more policemen, rushed to the spot. We got him to talk and diverted his attention whenever he tried to jump,“ said inspector Jayendra Sawant of the Worli police station. “He kept one leg dangling from the bridge. Meanwhile, we informed fishermen, who sailed to the spot from Versova and anchored a boat below Chaudhary .“ It was 11pm.
Below the bridge, the fishermen started shouting that if Chaudhary were to jump, they would catch him and foil his attempt to end his life. On the bridge, the policemen kept talking to him, gradually going closer to Chaudhary without alarming him.
The tensest moment was around midnight, when Chaudhary almost lived up to his threat.
As he jumped, Sawant and Kanse, who were by then very close to him, grabbed his arms and pulled him up with the help of fire brigade personnel and bystanders. The policemen and the fire brigade personnel, it seemed, had held their breath for 150 tense minutes since arriving at the spot. Now, everyone was breathing easy .
The police said Chaudhary initially told them he wanted to take the extreme step as his employer had not paid his salary.“It is still unclear why he wanted to end his life. Upon seeing his employer, he changed his statement and said he had lost his salary betting on cricket. Nothing sounds convincing. It seems he is mentally unstable,“ said deputy commissioner of police (zone III) S Jaykumar.
No case has been registered against Chaudhary; the Worli police have made a diary entry of the incident.
On Tuesday evening, the police handed him over to his employer.
Soon, a security guard on patrol spotted Chaudhary hanging on to the railings on the outer edge of the bridge. The waiter shouted he was going to end his life. The guard then stopped a motorist coming from the Worli-end.
The police and the fire brigade reached the spot--pole number 50, in the middle of the sea link--by 9.30 pm. “On receiving an alert from the police control room, sub-inspector Santosh Kanse and I, along with three more policemen, rushed to the spot. We got him to talk and diverted his attention whenever he tried to jump,“ said inspector Jayendra Sawant of the Worli police station. “He kept one leg dangling from the bridge. Meanwhile, we informed fishermen, who sailed to the spot from Versova and anchored a boat below Chaudhary .“ It was 11pm.
Below the bridge, the fishermen started shouting that if Chaudhary were to jump, they would catch him and foil his attempt to end his life. On the bridge, the policemen kept talking to him, gradually going closer to Chaudhary without alarming him.
The tensest moment was around midnight, when Chaudhary almost lived up to his threat.
As he jumped, Sawant and Kanse, who were by then very close to him, grabbed his arms and pulled him up with the help of fire brigade personnel and bystanders. The policemen and the fire brigade personnel, it seemed, had held their breath for 150 tense minutes since arriving at the spot. Now, everyone was breathing easy .
The police said Chaudhary initially told them he wanted to take the extreme step as his employer had not paid his salary.“It is still unclear why he wanted to end his life. Upon seeing his employer, he changed his statement and said he had lost his salary betting on cricket. Nothing sounds convincing. It seems he is mentally unstable,“ said deputy commissioner of police (zone III) S Jaykumar.
No case has been registered against Chaudhary; the Worli police have made a diary entry of the incident.
On Tuesday evening, the police handed him over to his employer.
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