Mumbai: Traffic cop rescues elderly labourer at Chembur

MUMBAI: A traffic policeman rescued an elderly labourer who had fallen into a nullah filled with muck at Chembur in Maharashtra capital Mumbai on Thursday.
The incident was reported around 2.30pm near Annabhau Sathe Garden on Mumbai-Thane Road.
Visitors to the garden who were the first to detect that someone - later identified as Santosh Devre, 52, from Chunabhatti - had fallen into the nullah yelled for help.

The nullah was filled with dirty water and the man could have drowned. One of the onlookers rushed to the Chembur traffic chowky nearby and alerted the cops.
A group of personnel rushed to the spot and one of them - constable Gehla - gingerly stepped onto the edge of the nullah.
He then bent down to extend his hand to the man who had fallen inside. But Gehla couldn't reach the man. His colleagues rushed back to the chowky and got some blankets.
They tied them together and Gehla extended one end of the blankets to the man inside the nullah. He was safely brought out.