A Nagarkurnool police station home guard's heroic actions caught on tape have since gone viral and getting a lot of praise from people.
In a heroic gesture the home guard saved a dog stuck across the river bank in the bushes.
A dog had slipped and fallen into one of the river streams in the outskirts of Nagarkurnool town, which was overflowing due to the continuous rains in the recent days.
The dog caught a branch and managed to get to the other side of the river and had nowhere to go.
It was stuck there, crying for help when the home guard rescued him.