A man brandishing a machete and allegedly threatening pedestrians on a busy road near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) was swiftly overpowered and disarmed following the swift intervention by a police constable, an official said on Sunday.
The incident occurred on Saturday evening when the armed man began shouting and charging at crowds and a woman accompanying him, he said.
According to the police, constable Vishal Yashwant Gade, attached to the LA-2 unit at Tardeo and currently on deputation at the police commissioner’s office, was on his way to work when he spotted the armed man creating a ruckus.
Acting swiftly, Gade approached the suspect from behind and overpowered him, and wrested the machete from his hand with the help of a passer-by, the official said.
The suspect, along with the seized weapon, was handed over to personnel of the M.R.A. Marg police station and a mobile patrol squad present at the scene, he said.
The woman was rescued safely, and the alert police constable averted a major tragedy, the official added.
