Team News Riveting
Raipur, June 28
Partly clothed villager riding pillion with an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer that too in the Maoist-infested pocket of Chhattisgarh is not a usual affair.
But the 2010-batch IPS officer, Sadanand Kumar has set a precedent, carrying an injured elderly villager in his bike to a nearest hospital in Chhattisgarh’s restive Narayanpur district. Kumar, the district superintendent of police in Narayanpur, was on a routine inspection tour in the remote areas where the rebels have considerable sway.
He inspected under construction Kachapal-Irakbhatti and Kihkad-Murnar road projects that were expedited under thick security cover. Both the road projects would connect the villagers tucked away unobtrusively in the densely forested pocket with the main stream of the society.
The areas are so remote that most of the officers falter to visit. Kumar during inspection came across a 65-year-old villager Mondi in Murnar village who was injured as his cattle hit. The IPS officer, in an inspirational example of humanity, took the villager for a pillion ride and reached the Sonpur government health centre. The villager was partly clothed even without footwear when the IPS officer made him sit with him on the bike.
Kumar directed the health officials to provide best medical care to Mondi. The IPS officer, Pushkar Sharma, Reserve Inspector Sonu Verma, Inspectors Akash Masih, Sunil Singh and Malik Ram Kevat accompanied Kumar, who has created a niche for himself by visiting the remote tribal predominated pockets in the district; distributing chocolate and biscuits to the children.
