Rajiv Kumar, a police officer in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district, carried an injured man on his shoulder for over 600 metres so that he could be put in a jeep and rushed to a health centre on Wednesday morning.

Deoghar SP Ashwini Kumar Sinha has praised the officer’s effort and decided to recommend his name to the DGP for an award.

Rajiv Kumar, 42, the Rikia police station officer in charge, did not read much into the incident. He said he had responded to a distress call arising from an electrocution in a lane in which a person died.

“When I reached the spot, I saw another man writhing in pain with his wife begging to take him for treatment…. I learnt he was also engaged in painting and had fallen from the second floor due to impact of the shock while the body of the other worker (Ravindra Das) was still dangling in the wires. No ambulance could reach the spot.

He said: “On the spur of the moment, I picked up the injured man and ran to my jeep which was nearly 600 metres from the site. I felt relieved on Thursday morning when I came to know that man (40-year-old Basuki Das) is stable and would be discharged soon.”