Pregnant girl made to stroll 3 km by police for not carrying helmet in Odisha

By Express News Service
BARIPADA: In a surprising incident of police insensitivity in Odisha, a pregnant girl was left to stroll 3 km after she was discovered using a pillion with out a helmet to the hospital as her husband was taken to a police station to pay the advantageous. 

The incident which occurred in Mayurbhanj district on Sunday has left the state administration red-faced. 

The 27-year-old girl Gurubari was going to Udala Sub-divisional hospital for well being check-up together with her husband Bikram Biruli on a motorcycle. 

While Bikram was carrying a helmet, Gurubari was not. The couple was intercepted by officer accountable for Sarat Police Station Rina Baksal who allegedly pressured Bikram to go to the police station to pay the advantageous leaving Gurubari on the spot.

Helpless, the nine-month pregnant girl made a grueling three-kilometer stroll to the police station within the scorching warmth. 

As the problem grabbed headlines, Mayurbhanj SP Parmar Smit Parshottam Das suspended the woman OIC on Monday.

Bikram, a local of Madkamsahi in Noto village below Sarat Police Station was on his strategy to the hospital for her medical checkup round 10 am on Saturday.

On the best way to the hospital, close to Sarat chowk, OIC Baksal together with some police personnel intercepted his bike and requested him why his spouse didn’t put on a helmet.

When Bikram replied he had his helmet on and his spouse didn’t put on one as a consequence of her well being situation, the OIC didn’t listen and instantly slapped a advantageous of Rs.500 for violating site visitors rule below MVI Act because the pillion rider had no helmet.

Bikram requested to offer the advantageous on-line as he didn’t carry sufficient money with him however the OIC didn’t settle for his request and ordered police personnel to take him to the police station in a police car.

The fervent pleas of the pregnant girl fell on the OIC’s deaf ears and police took her husband to Sarat Police Station. Gurubari adopted on foot and reached the police station later.

There too,  the couple was detained until Bikram’s mother and father reached with the penalty quantity.

“I fear for my wife since she is nine- months pregnant. Despite requests to the OIC, she did not show any sympathy for my wife,” Bikram stated.

Later he gave a written grievance earlier than the SDPO of Udala, Kedarnath Sahu in regards to the matter. 

Based on the inquiry report, the SP suspended the woman officer, and Sanjay Pradhan, IIC of Kaptipada police was assigned the extra cost of Sarat Police Station.