Chemist averts a suicide on the Railway track
The city of Belagavi has been seeing a series of suicides on the railway track in the past couple of months or so. How ever on Saturday a alert Chemist saved a life of woman who was trying to commit suicide on the railway track.
The incident occurred on Saturday when a married woman came to the Chemists shop and asked for a kind of poison. The shopkeeper said such goods are not sold here. Then the woman asked for sleeping pills to which the Chemist said it can be only be given on a valid prescription.
The woman who looked distressed went away from the shop but at this moment the shopkeeper asked hi employee to follow the woman and alert him if she is trying to do something drastic.
The woman came near the railway track and started to walk on the tracks at this moment the employee called the shopkeeper and informed him and he in turn informed the police who came on time and saved a life.
The women police consuled the lady and found out that she was fed of her domestic problems and she wanted to get rid of them.
The police also thanked the alert shopkeeper who denied medicines without prescription at the same time thought in the right way and saved a life.