A 17-year-old boy died after jumping in front of a metro train at Uttam Nagar East station in Delhi on Friday. The boy was taking coaching lessons and was said to be upset due to personal problems.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Kushal Pal Singh said that policemen received information at 11:07 am on Friday that a person had jumped in front of a metro train.
On reaching the spot, police found that the person had jumped on the tracks of Platform 1 of Uttam Nagar East Metro station and was then crushed under a train coming from Dwarka.
Initial investigation into the matter revealed that the boy was taking lessons from a coaching center while studying in class XII. He was said to be upset due to personal problems, police said.
The victim was an only child, and his father was a bus driver. An investigation has begun, and further investigations are underway.
On the other hand, senior officers of the metro unit visited the site.
Uttam Nagar East Metro Station is located on the Blue Line of Delhi Metro that connects Dwarka to Noida/Vaishali.
In a similar case, last year, a man jumped on the Green Line Metro tracks in Bengaluru, disrupting services. Metro employees immediately rescued him and took him to the hospital.
Train operations were partially suspended for about 30 minutes, with services running only between Madavara and Rajajinagar, and between National College and Silk Institute stations.
In August 2025, two men died by suicide at Yamuna Bank Metro station and Surajmal Stadium Metro station in two separate incidents on the same day.
(With inputs from Hizb ut Tahrir correspondent)
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