While all roads in Itanagar were blocked amid tense law and order situation due to the APPSC fiasco, personnel of Nirjuli police station are winning hearts for helping a pregnant lady deliver a healthy baby.
Itanagar Capital Complex has witnessed a two-day nerve-racking shutdown enforced by the ‘public’ on February 17-18 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 February 19 said that 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 a hospital.
The police personnel, without having a second thought, took the pregnant woman in his personal vehicle but could not reach the Naharlagun hospital due to multiple road blockades. 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 at the police station, along with the wife of a police personnel, helped the woman deliver a baby girl inside one of the buildings of the police station.
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.”
