India, May 6 -- In a risky incident which could have turned fatal, a 25-year-old man, suspected to be mentally unstable, was rescued from the roof of a moving train at Kalyan station on Tuesday afternoon after railway authorities spotted him and halted the train. The rescue took about 20 minutes and delayed the service by nearly 17 minutes.

Identified as Malka Sidre, the man had boarded the Badlapur-Dadar AC local train at Ambernath. Instead of entering a coach, he climbed onto the coupling between two bogies and later reached the roof while the train was in motion.

Railway staff first spotted him at Ulhasnagar, with an initial rescue attempt at Vitthalwadi proving unsuccessful. The operation was finally carried out on platform 7 at Kal...