A woman police officer carrying her toddler daughter in a baby carrier bag while discharging her duty at a helipad in Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur district has won praise from Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for her dedication to work. The opposition Congress, however, alleged that posting a woman officer, who has a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, under heat at the helipad for the CM’s chopper shows insensitivity on part of the state government. The officer identified as Monika Singh is posted as deputy superintendent of police (DSP) in MP’s Dhar district. She was deployed at the helipad for the CM’s chopper, who reached Alirajpur on Tuesday for the two-day campaigning for the upcoming bypoll for the Jobat Assembly seat.
“During my visit to Alirajpur, I saw that DSP Monika Singh was on duty carrying her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter in a baby carrier bag. Her dedication towards duty is commendable. Madhya Pradesh is proud of you. I wish her my best wishes and blessings to her little daughter," Chouhan said in a tweet on Wednesday and shared a video clip of the police officer with her daughter.
In a photo shared by Chouhan, he is seen placing his hand on the head of the baby girl sitting in the carrier bag tied to the body of her mother, before boarding the chopper on Wednesday.
अलीराजपुर यात्रा के दौरान मैंने देखा कि डीएसपी मोनिका सिंह अपनी डेढ़ वर्ष की बेटी को बेबी कैरियर बैग में लिए ड्यूटी पर तैनात थीं।अपने कर्तव्य के प्रति उनका यह समर्पण अभिनंदनीय है। मध्यप्रदेश को आप पर गर्व है।
मैं उन्हें अपनी शुभकामनाएं और लाडली बिटिया को आशीर्वाद देता हूं। pic.twitter.com/XFk7h2yxyY
— Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) October 20, 2021
Monika Singh, currently posted in the Dhar district, told PTI that she took her daughter along with her as she had to go to Alirajpur, nearly 145 km from Dhar, for two days. When she was leaving for her duty on Tuesday morning (while staying in Alirajpur), her daughter also woke up and began to insist on coming along, she said.
“I had to fulfill the responsibility as a mother and also had to perform my duty (as a police officer) together," she added.
Recently, a woman who was boarding a local train at one of Mumbai’s local railway stations was saved just in the nick of time by a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable on Thursday. The female constable managed to grab the 50-year-old woman and pull her out to safety after she was about to fall between the train and the platform gap. The incident which took place at the Sandhurst Road railway station in Mumbai was captured on a CCTV camera installed at the station. The woman, as is seen on the video comes up to the train compartment to board it but it appears she slips and while the train begins to move, the woman isn’t able to hold on and is almost dangerously close to slipping through the gap.
(With inputs from PTI)
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