The former CEO of a talent management agency was stopped purportedly from jumping off a bridge in the early hours of Friday, days after losing his job following accusations of sexually harassing women.

A police patrol saw Anirban Das Blah, co-founder of KWAN whose clientele includes several Bollywood superstars, climbing the barricades of the Vashi bridge around 12.30am and took him to Vashi police station.

Earlier this week, an actress, a model and two other women had accused Blah of sexually harassing them over the years.

Blah, who had founded the agency with nine others, was asked to step down from the company that handles the accounts of stars such as Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez, Sonam Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff and Telugu actor Mahesh Babu.

Late on Thursday night, Blah got off a taxi and began walking along the desolate Vashi bridge, prompting a police constable to ask him what he was doing there at that hour.

“He made some excuses and went another way,” a police officer said.

“A little later, another police team found him climbing the barricades at the bridge, after which he was caught and brought to the police station.”

The officer added: “He was in tears. He told us he was without a job and was acutely depressed because of the situation he was in.”

Blah’s wife was summoned to the police station and took him home a few hours later. No case has been filed against Blah.

Blah had also been an adviser with Deepika Padukone’s organisation Live Love Laugh Foundation, which works for mental health awareness. He was removed after the allegations surfaced.