Real Hero! RPF Head Constable Saves Baby Dangling From Moving Train In Bengaluru

In a brave act, a Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel saved the life of a baby from a moving train at KR Puram railway station in Bengaluru on September 12. The constanble, however, sustained some injuries while trying to save the baby.

Mohammad Kutty, 48, a head constable, was patrolling at the station. At 8:22pm, Yeshwantpur-Howrah train, which has only two-minutes stoppage at the station, started moving.

Unexpectedly, Kutty saw an unidentified woman carrying a luggage in one hand and a two- or three-year old child in another hand running towards the train. ¡°She managed to board the moving train, but she lost her balance. The child was dangling from her hand and about to go under the train,¡± a senior RPF official told The Times of India.

Kutty immediately ran towards the spot and pushed the dangling child inside the train. ¡°But he lost his balance and fell and got injured. He was given first aid and then shifted to a hospital in an ambulance immediately,¡± an official told TOI.

The report added that the child and woman received no injury and were saved from a life-threatening accident.

¡°I feel relieved that I got to save a life. I¡¯m grateful to God that I could save them. It was a risk, but since the life of a child was involved the risk needed to be taken,¡± said Kutty.

RPF senior divisional security commissioner Debasmita Chattopadhyay Banerjee, who visited Kutty at the hospital, told TOI that they will felicitate him once he recovers. ¡°Apart from the wounds, his right leg has severe pain due to suspected ligament tear. He can¡¯t walk or move his leg¡± he said.