Delhi: Man jumps from metro station, hospitalised
A man was captured on video jumping from the elevated Mayur Vihar 1 Metro station, on to the road below, on Monday afternoon. The man, whom the police identified as Vikram Sharma (45) — a resident of Katwaria Sarai, who works in a Gurgaon-based private telecommunications company – has been hospitalised.
The video, which has been shared widely on social media, shows Sharma climbing down the platform’s guardrails and scaling the wall below before leaping towards the road below. The police said they received a call from the station controller saying that a man was hanging over the platform’s side in the station for about half an hour.
Personnel from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Police Control Room and Fire Brigade tried to rescue Sharma with a hydraulic crane, police said. “T...