mumbai june 15 is a day that railway police constable shawbaee attarge wont forget anytime soon it was on this day last year that she had foiled a suicide bid at dahisar railway station while putting her own life at riskattarge was on night duty and was patrolling platform 2 of the station when she spotted a woman in her early twenties get down on the opposite tracks from platform 1 the constable quickly gathered that the woman was planning to die by suicide under a train a high fence separated the two platforms the plucky constable did not think twice before climbing over to reach the other side she pushed the woman who was speaking on phone away from the tracks and almost lifted her onto the platform she later counselled her for an houron thursday attarges parents beamed with pride as she was honoured at a glittering event at ghatkopar along with 37 other grp personnel from different parts of maharashtra who went beyond the call of duty additional dg railways dr pradnya sarvade who felicitated the cops said 53 lives were saved in four months from january to april 2023 there wasnt a dry eye in the audience as cctv grabs of how each passenger was saved flashed on a large screen at the eventamong the mostrecalled cases was that of constable chetan tatu scooping up a seriously injured 12yearold from the tracks and halfwalking halfrunning the 300metre distance up to bandra station carrying the child the boy farhan ansari had fallen off a train while travelling with friends in january 2023 and his left leg was hanging from his thigh mai bachunga kya sir will i stay alive sir he had whispered to tatu i swore that i would do everything in my capacity to save him said tatu who got the boy to bhabha hospital bandra within 10 minutes ansaris leg had to be amputated but his life was saved sarvade said each cop had acted instinctively to save a life and there had been no time to plan or strategise in one of the cases from aurangabad railways an assistant subinspector pradeep rane had found a newborn with an unclamped umbilical cord abandoned under a wash basin the baby was trapped in the tiny space and he rescued it before summoning a doctorbesides honouring the cops who saved lives of passengers sarvade also gave away awards to those police stations that did exceedingly well in serving passengers a kralike assessment had been announced earlier this year under which every police station was to receive points based on their performance in six categories registering firs speedily under two hours following an sop in kidnapping cases nabbing offenders quickly for crimes against women rescuing lost minors among others the wadala grp post won an award for registering maximum firs under two hours while the kalyan grp post was awarded for nabbing an offender redhanded for committing a crime against a woman