Metro services were disrupted for an hour during the morning rush on Thursday after a man jumped in front of a train at Rabindra Sadan station.
The man was declared “brought dead” at SSKM Hospital. Police identified the deceased as Himanshu Pugalia, 25. He lived in an apartment on Keyatala Road, they said.
Police sources said he was into stock market trading. “But as of now, there is nothing to suggest that his profession and his death are linked,” said an officer.
“The man jumped in front of a Dakshineswar-bound train at Rabindra Sadan around 8.50am,” said a Metro official.
The carrier was forced to run a truncated service during the operation.
Trains ran between Dakshineswar and Central in the north and Mahanayak Uttam Kumar (Tollygunge) and Kavi Subhash (New Garia) in the south. There was no service on the stretch between Tollygunge and Central for almost an hour.
“Normal services on the entire stretch resumed at 9.48am,” said Kausik Mitra, the Metro spokesperson.
The disruption came during the morning rush and tormented thousands of passengers. The Tollygunge to Central stretch includes very busy stations in the office hubs — Maidan, Park Street, Esplanade and Chandni Chowk.
There was a crowd outside each of the stations where people waited for public transport.
Suicides and suicide bids have for long plagued the city’s North-South Metro corridor. The East-West Metro has platform screen doors that prevent suicide bids.