Bengaluru: A city cop turned Good Samaritan for a blind man who was struggling to find his way amid the heavy rains near Vidhana Soudha recently.

Asifulla Ashrafi, a constable currently posted with the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Command Centre), Nagendra Kumar, in the GPS and Media Monitoring Section, went beyond his call of duty when he saw a blind man caught in the heavy rains that lashed the city on Saturday evening. While, all the commuters ignored the blind man, Ashrafi stopped vehicle and helped the man.

Narrating the incident to DC, Ashrafi said, “I was returning home after work when I noticed a blind man struggling to find his way. He was neither walking on the footpath nor on the road. It was raining heavily. The man was drenched and had nothing to cover himself. I parked my bike by the roadside and walked upto him to know if he needed help.”

Adding further, he said, “The man told me that he wanted to go to the city railway station as he has a train to board to go to Kerala. When I asked him from where he was coming, I was shocked to learn that he was walking from Yelahanka to his destination. He had walked nearly 20 kilometres. I asked him to sit on my bike and dropped him at the railway station to make sure he reached on time.”

“The blind man who was in need of help is Ramesh, from Kerala and was pursuing his studies in Bengaluru. After reaching the railway station, I checked his tickets and learnt that his train would depart from platform number 2. I couldn’t help but ask him why he was going to Kerala and his answer left me speechless. He told me that he regularly visits an orphanage where he teaches poor children free of cost. But he was worried as he did not have money to buy books for his final year course. Moved by his plight, I gave him some money to buy books,” added Ashrafi.

Kudos to the Man in Khaki for upholding humanity.