Swift action by the Delhi Police was crucial in saving the life of a 25-year-old woman, who was allegedly threatening to commit suicide in an Instagram Live video on Thursday. Her location in North Delhi was traced and the attempt was cut short. The entire operation took less than eight minutes, the police have claimed.
The married woman, who lives with her husband, had allegedly consumed sanitiser. The police immediately contacted her husband and brother. She has been advised counselling.
Sagar Singh Kalsi, DCP (North), said his team received information from the Cyber Cell at 9.55 pm on Thursday about the social media video. The cell informed the North Delhi police about the exact area from which the video was uploaded on Instagram.
“We immediately called SHO Rajendra Prasad at the area police station. Even though the team had the address and contact number of the woman, she kept changing her location. To trace the location further, the woman was contacted on her cell phone,” said DCP Kalsi.
A police team went to the area and kept calling the woman to distract her. “I used one cell phone to trace her location and was simultaneously made calls with another phone. In the video, we could see that she had consumed some liquid. We posed as locals, called and told her that our car was stuck near her house and we needed her help. This distracted her. She came near her home and started looking for us. At 10.02 pm, we found her on the street and stopped her,” said a police officer.
The woman admitted to the police that she was “depressed” because of her lifestyle and decided to end her life.
