TRICHY: Bringing laurels to the Trichy rural police during the lockdown, a 23-year-old police constable attached to the Manapparai police station donated blood to a pregnant woman for performing caesarean.The woman gave birth to a baby girl at a hospital at Manapparai.S Syed Abuthahir of Valanadu in Trichy district was rewarded by superintendent of police Zia Ul Haq for his timely service on Wednesday.The 2017 batch Grade II constable was on duty near Kamarajar statue in Manapparai on Monday evening when he saw a pregnant woman, her husband and another woman walking towards the city. As the curfew was in effect, he called them out through the public address system.Sulochana, 25, her husband Ezhumalai and their relative had told him that the pregnant woman was due for delivery on Monday.At the hospital the doctors suggested for a C-section.“The doctors told us to arrange two units of blood as they are running short of blood due to lack of donors during the lockdown. So, we were on the way back to the city to take a vehicle to reach home. But we chanced upon the policeman. I never thought he would donate his blood for the caesarean,” said Ezhumalai, adding that he had no words to express his thanks to him.Initially, Abuthahir was under the impression that they had no vehicle to reach their house.So, he arranged a taxi from their village to pick them up on the assurance that police won’t seize the vehicle.“During the conversation, they told me that the caesarean could have been done if ‘O positive’ was available. Without wasting time, I offered to donate blood as I am also O positive. So, I took them to the hospital and donated blood. The baby was born at 8.30pm and I left the hospital after seeing the infant,” said Abuthahir.He credited the SP for motivating and encouraging the police personnel to serve the people.