NEW DELHI: Showing great presence of mind, a police officer stopped a family from cremating a man who was still alive.On Monday evening, police received a call from someone in Bara Hindu Rao area about a youth who had hanged himself. SHO Sanjay Kumar went to the house with a team and found the family in mourning. They recounted whatever had happened that evening for the police. Around 6pm, they said, Raj (21), went to his room while the rest of the family sat in the living room.After about 20 minutes, Raju’s father went to his roomto talk about something. To his utter shock, he found Raju hanging from a ceiling fan. He raised an alarm and everyone came inside. Raju had hung himself with a bedsheet. Together, the family members brought him down. One of them called up the police.SHO Kumar inspected the room in which Raju had attempted suicide and thought the height was too low for anyone to die by hanging. He thought it was highly possible that his feet touched the floor. Meanwhile, the grieving family started to arrange for Raju’s funeral.SHO Kumar then inspected the body. By then a mortuary van had already arrived outside. Kumar was shocked to feel the youth’s pulse — he was still alive! The pulse was weak, but it was still on, a senior officer said.Kumar immediately rushed Raju to a hospital while giving him CPR on the way. At the hospital, doctors revived him.Doctors told the police that Raju’s pulse was so weak that any further delay in getting him to the hospital would have been fatal.After Raju regained consciousness, he told the police that he attempted suicide as he was tired of the frequent scoldings by his parents.