60 yrs Judge dives into lake to save young girl

A sixty years old high court judge rescued the girl from drowning by putting his own life into risk.

Judge Jeyapaul, of Punjab and Haryana High Court plunged into the Sukhna Lake to save a young girl from drowning.

He and a security officer saved the girl from a certain death It was on March 30 that during his morning walk on the banks of the lake, that Justice M.Jeyapaul observed a commotion with several people shouting for help.After learning that a young girl was drowning he immediately jumped into lake.

Justice Jeyapaul’s security officer, Yashpal, also followed him into the waters.Both of them swam towards the girl and rescued her.Yashpal is learnt to have gone under water and pulled the girl to the surface.She was then brought to the shore by him and Justice Jeyapaul.

Later the judge learnt that teh girl tried to attempt suicide when her parents refused to sponsor her studies.Sources said the girl was a resident of Kishangarh village and was a student of a government school.

The girl’s mother allegedly scolded her for studies and the girl left the house and jumped into the lake.Upon learning this, the Judge gave the family some money towards her studies.