On Tuesday morning, a 25 year old man in an attempt to end his life climbed on the Over Head Equipment (OHE) at Borivali railway station and was rescued by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) by shutting the powersupply at the railway platform. Due to the commotion, 40 trains were delayed and 4 other trains were cancelled.

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According to RPF, Shyam Paswan, 25 was depressed and wanted to end life. In the first attempt the onlookers stopped him from climbing on the OHE mast at the North end of Borivali platform no 7 at 9.45 am. Later which Paswan managed to climb again and the RPF team rushed to the spot to rescue him. The engineers from Western Railway later disconnected the power supply after which RPF personnel climbed on the mast to bring Paswan down.

Girish Iyer, an eyewitness to the incident said, "We all were shocked to see the man climbing on the mast when we intervened and stopped him from climbing the pole. After we sent him back, he climbed another pole within no time and so we had to inform police to rescue him. Till the police reached we were discouraging him to jump down."

"The power supply was disconnected for ten minutes so that the RPF personnel could climb and bring the man down from the OHE. The person is mentally disturbed and wanted to end life.", said a RPF personnel from Borivali .

Ravindra Bhakar, spokesperson for Western Railway said, "Total 40 trains were delayed and 4 trains were cancelled while rescuing the man. Our RPF personnel managed to bring the person down by counselling him. The man is mentally disturbe