An alert constable of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) saved the life of an 18-year-old girl after she had accidently fallen into the Munak canal. The constable who was on sentry duty in CRPF’s camp at Bawana area on outer Delhi, saved the girl from drowning, a senior official said on Saturday.
Constable Pramod Kumar Chauhan was on sentry duty and around 11 am and he saw someone drowning in the canal, which flows right behind the 55th Battalion camp, he said. It is believed that the woman fell into the canal accidentally, the official said.
Pramod wasted no time after seeing the girl, identified as Lakshmi Pal, drowning in the canal which flows behind the CRPF’s 55th Battalion camp in west Delhi’s Bawana area around 11 am.
The jawan first alerted his colleagues Head Constable KD Sharma and Assistant Sub-Inspector KC Meena and than jumped into the water to rescue her. She was given first aid at the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp.
The girl, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur and now residing in west Delhi’s Narela, was taken to Maharishi Balmiki Government hospital in the area, said the official. According to the CRPF, its officials rescued three civilians from drowning in 2017.