A tense situation unfolded in Kolkata on Monday afternoon after a man struggling both financially and emotionally following separation from his wife threatened to jump off a bridge.
However, police personnel rushed to the site and acted diligently to calm down the 40-year-old who changed his mind later after cops promised to help him get a job and offered him a biryani packet.
The incident caused much disruption to traffic through one of the busiest streets of the city for nearly half an hour, the police officer from Karaya station said.
The man was with her elder daughter when he climbed up the bridge and threatened to jump off.
“Around 2.30 pm, he was taking his elder daughter to Science City on his two-wheeler. He suddenly stopped near the bridge and told her that his mobile phone had fallen somewhere on the road and he was trying to spot it,” the police said.
Onlookers at the bridge alerted cops, who immediately reached the spot with a team of Kolkata Police Disaster Management Group (DMG) and the fire department.
After learning about the man’s recent separation and business losses, the police officers engaged in a heartfelt conversation, aiming to de-escalate the situation and offer him hope.
“We spoke to his daughter to understand the problem and accordingly planned the conversation to convince and bring him down. And finally, after we made the offers, he agreed to come down,” the police said.
(With PTI inputs)
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