A 31-year-old librarian died on the spot after he allegedly jumped in front of a moving train at Delhi's Najafgarh metro station on Monday morning, police said as reported by news agency PTI.
The police received information at 9.26 am on Monday that a person had jumped in front of a train at Najafgarh, a senior officer told the news agency.
The victim was identified as Manish Kumar, a resident of Prem Nagar in Najafgarh. He died on the spot, the officer said.
CCTV footage has been checked and his family members also reached the spot. Kumar was a librarian in Uttrakhand's Devprayag.
He was married and had one daughter, he said.
Inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC are being done and further inquiry is underway, the police added.According to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, services normalised in 15 to 20 minutes.
Earlier in June, a man died after he jumped in front of a metro train in Noida. A police official, while talking to news agency PTI, said that the incident took place at Sector 52 station on the Blue Line of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's corridor. The official said that the incident was reported in the morning after which officials of the local Sector 49 police station rushed to the spot. He further added that the deceased appeared to be 35 years old.
Prior to this in February, a "mentally ill" man allegedly died by suicide by jumping in front of a moving train at the Mayur Vihar-1 metro station on the Blue Line in east Delhi. The deceased was identified as Ajay Laxman Pakhale, a former senior manager at Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL). A 'brief delay' was observed in metro services following this incident due to which other trains on the corridor also got affected.