SRINAGAR: A CRPF jawan saved a Kashmiri election official's life when he suffered a heart attack during polling on Thursday by performing 30 compressions and three mouth-to-mouth respirations, instructed over the phone by a doctor from the paramilitary force. Around 9am, constable Surinder Kumar of 28 Battalion stationed at the polling booth in government girls' school, Buchpora, noticed that presiding officer Ahsaan-ul-Haq was feeling unwell. He was given first-aid, but fell unconscious within a minute, Kumar told TOI.Kumar, who is among the 50 CRPF personnel trained by Indian Red Cross Society as "first responders" during critical situations, tried all the emergency numbers - 100, 102 and 108. But when none offered immediate help, he called the CRPF's most helpful doctor in Kashmir and his senior in the battalion, Suneem Khan (37).After hearing him out, Khan, who had received the President's Life Saving Award in 2017, quickly discerned that it was a heart attack. For the next 45 minutes, Khan instructed Kumar to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and mouth-to-mouth respirations to Haq. "Surinder responded to the situation intelligently and he followed my instructions very diligently," Khan told TOI.While instructing Kumar, Khan also managed to call the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) as well as the deputy commissioner of Srinagar, Shahid Choudhary, for an ambulance.The ambulance arrived at 10am and Haq was shifted to SKIMS. The doctors there said the timely intervention by Kumar and Khan saved Haq's life.A resident of Panipat, Kumar (36) has served in the UN mission in Liberia and is on his second posting in Kashmir.Khan was a doctor at SKIMS from 2008, when Kashmir was rocked by violence. In 2010, when around 100 youth were killed in clashes with forces, Khan is known to have saved many lives. This is the fourth life he has saved so far by giving instructions on the phone. "Whatever I have done is a result of my fundamental upbringing. I owe most of it to my parents who inculcated these values," he told TOI.