Bengaluru: A 28-year-old bank employee standing on the edge of Batu near Gokak Falls, about 75 km from here, to click Selfie fell 140 feet into the canyon on Saturday night and saved more than 12 hours.
Police personnel almost submitted their rescue operations after six hours of search produced a breakthrough on the existence of Sagar Pradeep.
It is a beep from the message WhatsApp – ‘I’m stuck here, where are you all?’ – To his friends around 3.30 Sunday morning which connects expectations between rescue personnel, who managed to attract Pradeep around 7am on Sunday.
Pradeep, which from the Taluk Jewargi from Kalaburagi Regency and worked with the Bellagavi branch from the bank over the past two years, suffered injuries on his face and bruised on limbs.
He had been hospitalized in Gokak and his condition was stable.
The accident occurred when Pradeep and five friends visited Gokak Falls over the weekend.
It was around 6:30 p.m.
that Pradeep took out his phone to click on a photo of the sun set in the background of the waterfall and ventured through rocky fields to take Selfie.
He lost his balance and dropped 140ft to the canyon.