Still from CCTV footage of the dramatic rescue | Photo Credit: Times Now

Key Highlights The incident took place in Gondia, also known as the 'Rice City' Video shows the boy falling and slipping in the cavity between the running train and the platform The dramatic incident took place on Monday night

Mumbai: In an exemplary show of courage, a jawan with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Maharashtra saved the life of a passenger who fell from a train in Gondia on Monday night. The dramatic incident was caught on camera and is being widely circulated on social media platforms.

Internet users from across the country are praising the CRPF jawan for his prompt reflexes which enabled him to save the life of a passenger. In a video of the incident, a man can be seen trying to deboard the moving train. However, he slips into the cavity between the train and the platform. He is rescued by the brave CRPF jawan who risks his own life to save the man.

The CRPF jawan can be seen pulling the boy out of the cavity. After two attempts, he manages to rescue the boy who escapes this otherwise distressing incident unharmed. Several tales of men in uniform putting their own lives at risk to save those of others continue to be reported from all quarters of the country.

Just earlier this month, a constable with the Railway Police Force (RPF) in Maharashtra's Thane district jumped on the railway tracks to save the life of a passenger who was crossing from one platform to the other by walking on the tracks. In a video of the incident that went viral on social media soon after, the RPF jawan can be seen jumping on the railway tracks to save the man who froze in the middle of the tracks upon seeing a train approaching him.

A similar incident was reported from the Currey Road railway station in Mumbai's Lower Parel area where an RPF jawan saved a 52-year-old woman from being crushed under an oncoming train. Footage retrieved from CCTV cameras installed at the station shows the woman trying to alight the moving train as she slips and falls in the space between the moving train and the platform. Fortunately, the RPF jawan later identified as one Sachin Kumar wasted no time and pulled the woman out.