In the second such incident in the last 48 hours, a 20-year-old youth allegedly committed suicide when he jumped before an approaching metro train at west Delhi’s Nawada Metro station here on Thursday afternoon. “We have not recovered any suicide note yet but we have collected footage of the CCTV cameras installed at the station and investigations are on,” informed a police official.
The deceased has been identified as Qadir, a resident of Mansaram Park in Uttam Nagar area. Qadir jumped in front of the train, approaching on platform number 1 at Nawada Metro station (Blue line), around 12.20 pm. The metro staff immediately rushed Qadir to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.
The incident hit train operations on the blue line for nearly 15 minutes. Qadir, a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district, was a barber by profession and lived with his uncle in a rented accommodation. His uncle told police that he left the house for work.