Hyderabad, Feb. 23 -- After spending more than two weeks stranded on a metro pillar and prompting even a brief suspension of metro services, a young orange cat was brought to safety in Kerala's Ernakulam .

The exhausted feline, fondly named 'Subhash' after a character from the hit Malayalam film Manjummel Boys, was rescued around 1.30 am on Sunday, February 22, through the joint efforts of Gandhi Nagar Fire Station, animal lovers and the Kochi Metro Rail Limited after a painstaking six-hour operation. It was immediately taken into their care.

The cat had reportedly been stuck for nearly 15 days on a pillar near the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium, surviving without food and growing visibly weak.

Rescue attempts had begun on Satu...