The younger man’s pals reported it to the Kolkata police. (X)
After the police tracked him down, they discovered that he was upset by some points and determined to take excessive measures.
The proactive intervention of the Kolkata Police helped foil a suicide try talked about on social media on Saturday.
A follower despatched a message to Kolkata police round 11 pm on Saturday. The hyperlink results in display screen footage of a Fb Reside broadcast through which a 20-year-old man threatened to take his personal life. Police instantly traced the account however had been unable to entry it as a result of it was locked.
After police known as the whistleblower, they discovered that the younger man was an alumnus of his and was at present an undergraduate scholar on the college. The informant knew his good friend’s earlier cellphone quantity however not his present handle.
Police used technical means to hint the quantity to an space in Behala however realized it will take extra time to seek out the precise handle and despatched the message to Panasri Police Station (PS) officer in cost (OC) Inspector Sati Satya Prakash Upadhyay.
The message was additionally despatched to Behala PS OC Inspector Animesh Haoladar. On his directions, Sub-Inspectors Subhankar Das, Amaresh Naskar and Arun Bhattacharya began conducting a radical search within the Behala PS space. Then again, Sub-Inspector Rajat Mondal began looking out Parnasree PS space.
Officers from Behala PS had been in fixed contact with the whistleblower and Sarsuna PS was knowledgeable of the scenario.
Because the younger man’s identify was fairly widespread in Bangladesh, police awoke different confused residents with the identical identify in the midst of the evening. They apologized for the misunderstanding and rushed to the following doable handle. Lastly, the Behala PS workforce traced the youth’s handle and present cellphone quantity in Panasri.
When police spoke to him, they discovered that he determined to take the intense step as a result of he was upset about some points.
Chatting with News18, a Kolkata police officer stated, “It was a collective effort. We had been knowledgeable from the management room and the 4 thanas had been working collectively.
“Labazar’s social media monitoring workforce has achieved good outcomes. It has saved folks from fraud and even saved lives.
A day earlier, Kolkata police satisfied a automobile proprietor to take away a sticker bearing an objectionable message in opposition to girls.
