August 5 was an unusually peaceful day at the police control room — till a call came in that blew the minds of the staff there. A 25-year-old man, jilted by his beloved, was on the other end, telling the woman constable who had taken his call he was going to commit suicide by throwing himself in front of a running train.u00a0The frantic caller disconnected the phone even as Constable Nirmala Walunj tried to persuade him against taking the drastic step.

The woman constable then lost no time in identifying on a cell phone spotting system the location of the mobile from which the man had called, and after determining he was at the Khadki railway station she alerted the local police station.u00a0Within 10 minutes, beat marshals had reached the spot and pulled away the youth from the tracks even as a train approached in the distance.