The Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel on Monday rescued a man, who was stranded at Khutaghat Dam near Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district due to heavy rain and rising water level of the dam.

The man, identified as 34-year-old Jitendra Kumar Kashyap, had jumped into the wastewater weir on Sunday evening but was unable to come out due to the heavy flow of water. He sat on a stone holding on to a tree for 16 hours, and a Mi-17 chopper of IAF was used to rescue him.