General manager East Central Railway’s saloon could have over run a desperate man on the track, who was hell bent to come under the wheels, if one RPF personnel had not acted swift to avert this imminent loss of life on the track.
The incharge of RPF post at Garhwa Road junction Kumar Nayan Singh said that GM ECR Anupam Sharma was on the window trailing inspection and on Thursday around 9 in the day he left Garhwa road junction for Tori Shivpur for onward window inspection via Patratu Gomoh to Koderma when his saloon was crossing platform number 4 at Koderma a 32 year old man appeared on track 3 all set to jump from there under the wheels of the saloon.
Kumar Nayan Singh said there RPF personnel Pappu Yadav saw the man and on the spur of the moment he overtook the man till the saloon of the GM ECR didn’t pass on that track. This episode was of 5.40 in the evening of Thursday itself. The man on the track was identified as Bajrangi Manjhi of Gaya district in Bihar.
Kumar Nayan Singh said a senior RPF official Jawahar Lal at Koderma railway station played a great motivational force in the most timely intervention of Pappu Yadav in rescuing the desperate man Bajrangi.