Ashish’s biggest dream was to become an inspector for the Mumbai Police. And this magical hope came true when he was sworn in as an inspector of the city’s Mulund police station for a few hours on Thursday.
It had been a complete surprise for the cops of the Rajakkad police station in the Idukki district of Kerala was when a man turned up with a cake at the station.
Apart from her core work of maintaining law and order, she started training police officers on 'sensitivity' and ‘empathy’ and began using ‘social innovation’ in policing.
The 40 students who attend this school are kids you see loitering railway stations, some of whom have been accused in petty theft cases, are addicted to drugs or mostly work as ragpickers to make ends meet.
In a country grappling with considerable poverty and serious civic issues, it doesn't make sense to give more importance to dead icons than living people.
“I did not allow them to leave. I said first talk to me and tell me how are these girls related to you. These girls had travelled all the way from Gujarat, they told me.”
This call from home left him rooted to the spot as his world fell apart like a pack of cards. His 27-year-old daughter, Jyoti, had collapsed and died suddenly.
Out for work, the couple returned to their Sion-Koliwada house in the evening to witness the brutal murder of their only daughter, three-year-old Vaishnavi and Sheetal’s mother, 55-year-old Ranjana Nagotkar. The little girl and the elderly woman lay in a pool of blood, their throats slit.