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n the afternoon of January 29, Mustaq Ahmed, head constable of the Yedapally police station in Telangana’s Nizamabad, and Mohan, a constable, were questioning residents about a land dispute, when they received a call informing them that a girl had been washed away in the Nizam Sagar distributary canal. The waterway ran just a stone’s throw from the ARP camp in Yedapally mandal, off the Nizamabad-Bodhan National Highway 63.
Ahmed says they immediately kick-started their bike and set off. “When we reached the spot, we saw rescuers laying the body of the girl on the bund side,” he recalls.
