Bengaluru Police save 19-year-old in dramatic 7-minute rescue after poison alert call

At 4:35 pm on January 20, time was slipping away inside a locked house on St. Mary Road in Bengaluru’s Basavanapura area. Inside, a 19-year-old woman lay unconscious after consuming poison, overwhelmed by severe mental stress.

Hundreds of kilometres away, her father in Kolkata had just received a phone call no parent ever wants to answer — his daughter’s final, desperate attempt to reach out before losing consciousness.

Panic gave way to urgency. The father immediately called a trusted friend in Bengaluru, who did not hesitate for a second. The call went straight to the Namma 112 emergency helpline.

What followed was a seven-minute race against death.

The emergency dispatch centre swiftly alerted Bengaluru City Police patrol unit Hoysala-152, manned by Sub-Inspector Srinivas Murthy and Head Constable Manjunath. With sirens cutting through the afternoon traffic, the police team sped towards the address. They reached the house in just seven minutes.

The door was locked. There was no response from inside. With no time to lose, the officers forced the door open. Inside, they found the young woman in a critical condition.

Without waiting for additional support, the policemen lifted her and rushed her to Banashankari Hospital, where doctors immediately began emergency treatment.

Medical staff later confirmed that the swift police action made all the difference. The poison had not yet caused irreversible damage.

The young woman is now stable and continuing treatment, her life saved by a chain of quick decisions made across cities — from Kolkata to Bengaluru — and by officers who refused to waste a single second.

In a city often criticised for its traffic and response times, this seven-minute rescue stands as a powerful reminder of what decisive policing and a functional emergency system can achieve: not just law enforcement, but the saving of a life when it mattered most.