DGP’s Special Award for two Moga policemen who helped woman deliver by roadside
DGP Dinkar Gupta said he has chosen ASI Bikkar Singh and constable Sukhjinder Singh of Moga for the first ‘DGP’s Honour & Disc for Exemplary Seva to Society’.
ASI Bikkar Singh and constable Sukhjinder Singh- on night PCR duty, arranged wooden benches, called a nurse and other women from neighbourhood to help the woman deliver her baby after she was turned away by three hospitals on Friday night.
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and DGP Dinkar Gupta announced Special Award Disc for two policemen from Moga who helped a woman deliver her baby by roadside in Dharamkot Friday night.
The Indian Express had reported how the woman Jyoti (30) was turned away by three hospital Friday night amid coronavirus outbreak and curfew in Punjab.
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Two policemen- ASI Bikkar Singh and constable Sukhjinder Singh- on night PCR duty, arranged wooden benches, called a nurse and other women from neighbourhood to help the woman deliver her baby. She delivered a baby boy at Lohgarh Chowk around midnight. Later the policemen also dropped mother and baby home in their vehicle.
In a statement from Chandigarh, CM said that he has authorized DGP to institute a new award for cops carrying out exceptional work, going beyond the call of duty, during the current crisis of coronavirus and curfew.
DGP Dinkar Gupta said he has chosen ASI Bikkar Singh and constable Sukhjinder Singh of Moga for the first ‘DGP’s Honour & Disc for Exemplary Seva to Society’.
In addition, DGP has also awarded Inspector SHO Sanjeev Kumar of Amritsar, who has been feeding the poor and hungry with a missionary zeal and supplying grocery in slums.
Meanwhile, both Moga cops also visited Jyoti’s family again and gifted a cradle to baby.
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The cops who helped the woman delivery the baby gifted the newborn child with a cradle.
“We cannot express in words how happy we are. We only followed teachings of our Gurus. We thank CM and DGP for recognizing our effort. We are not big officers with senior designations but we just did what we could seeing a woman in pain. We had only stopped the motorbike on basis of suspicion for checking but they were actually looking for a hospital,” said Bikkar Singh and Sukhjinder Singh, speaking to The Indian Express.
Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab.
Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab.
She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC.
She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012.
Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab.
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