Alert commuters averted a major mishap that could have claimed thousands of lives as they caught an allegedly drunk motorman and handed him over to the Government Railway Police at Navi Mumbai's CBD Belapur station.

The incident took place at around 8.30 pm on Wednesday evening, when a Wadala-Belapur train entered platform number 2 of the Belapur station. After the train pulled into the station and the motorman was getting out of his cabin, some passers-by felt he was not completely in control of his senses. After which they alerted the GRP officials and handed him to them.