Indian-American man is being hailed for his courage

New York May 03: An Indian-American man is being hailed for his courage and rewarded by the police in the US here on Tuesday.

while coming to matter,34-year-old Indian man saved the life of his woman co-worker from an oncoming train but was robbed of his bag when he jumped on the tracks to help her.

Anil Vannavalli, a data administrator, was waiting for his train to work to Manhattan Friday morning when 26-year-old Madhuri Recherla fell on the tracks at the Edison train station, according to the reports.



The immigrant from India who came to the US 10 years ago, kept his backpack on the train platform and jumped onto the tracks with another commuter to save his co-worker Recherla from an oncoming train. While Vannavalli was doing that, police said a thief stole his backpack containing his laptop computer and headphones, valued at 700 dollars; about 200 dollars in cash, and his work identification card, police said. "How can they do this in this situation? I felt very bad," Vannavalli said.

Edison Police later presented a cheque of 1,000 dollars to Vannavalli.