Timely response by Hyderabad cop saves 16 lives

The incident occurred when ABVP activists tried to lay siege to Pragathi Bhavan staging a protest on the TSPSC paper leakage

Hyderabad: Quick thinking and timely response by a cop averted a major mishap and saved 16 lives near Khairatabad here on Tuesday.

The incident occurred when ABVP activists tried to lay siege to Pragathi Bhavan staging a protest on the TSPSC paper leakage. When the protestors tried to enter the premises, the security personnel stopped them and took them into preventive custody.

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The protestors were being shifted to the Banjara Hills police via Khairatabad in a police vehicle when the driver Ramesh, a home guard, suddenly suffered an epileptic attack.

Banjara Hills sub-inspector S Karunakar Reddy who was inside the vehicle on noticing it, immediately jumped out of the vehicle and controlled it. In the process, Reddy and a constable, Sai Kumar, suffered minor injuries.

The sub-inspector, constable and home guard were immediately shifted to a nearby private hospital for treatment.