Itanagar: In what appeared to be a heartwarming scene for a mother to-be, her relatives and the people all around, a policeman helped a pregnant lady reach a ‘safe’ place to get her little bundle of joy at a time when the Arunachal Pradesh capital roads were blocked amid a tense law and order situation.
Itanagar Capital Complex has witnessed a two-day nerve-racking shutdown enforced by the ‘public’ – a never-before-seen episode – on Friday and Saturday to press for fulfillment of the 13-point demand of agitating Pan Arunachal Joint Steering Committee pertaining to the APPSC fiasco.
Itanagar Capital Complex SP Jimmy Chiram on Sunday said, amid the tense law and order situation during the capital bandh on February 17 at around 7.30 am Constable Rohit Dada of Nirjuli Police Station was asked by a family of a pregnant woman to help them in reaching hospital.
The police personnel, without having a second thought, took the pregnant woman in his personal vehicle; however the roads were blocked in various locations en route to Naharlagun hospital. Hence, considering the condition of the woman and the law and order situation, she was taken to the Nirjuli Police Station, the closest place from their position.
Finally, the lady police personnel of the PS along with the wife of a police personnel helped the woman deliver a baby girl inside one of the buildings of the PS. The parents of the baby named her “Ana”, deriving the last three letters of the word ‘Thana’.
“Bandh call affects and disrupts normal life to its maximum extent and poses threat to loss of life and property directly,” the SP said in a statement, adding that “Capital police strives to serve even at such difficult times.
