IPS Harssh Poddar

With 40,000 labourers returning to Beed from their workplaces, the risk of a COVID-19 infection was high. But here's how the cops swung into action.

The IPS officer even requested local religious leaders like the imams to pacify the crowd. Yet, there was no respite. The frenzied crowd refused to listen and pelted stones at the leaders and the police.