Srinagar, July 20: At a time when the police is accused of killing over a dozen youth in the Valley and running a “reign of terror”, this team of cops seems to have done something exceptional on the City outskirts: In a bid to save a little girl who came in way of their Gypsy on the Airport Road, they crashed the cab getting injured while the kid escaped unhurt.
The incident occurred Monday when a team from Police Post Humhama was taking the body of Anna Javed, who died in a mishap at Sanat Nagar, for postmortem.“We were rushing towards Budgam when the little girl suddenly popped up on the road. And to save her, and I spontaneously turned my vehicle and it crashed into a electric pole,” says the Gypsy driver.The driver said on spotting the girl he instantly perceived that the girl could be crushed by the Gypsy.“And that very moment Imtiaz (Mir Imtiaz, the PP in-charge) Sahib who was sitting on the front seat shouted what I was just attempting to do: Save her,” the constable said adding the very next moment the Gypsy rammed into the electric pole.While the driver and another constable received minor injuries, Imtiaz, police said, suffered a head injury as the cab front windscreen crashed on his head.“We fell unconscious only to recover at the hospital,”Imtiaz said Tuesday after recovering from the shock.Some locals had rescued the wounded and informed the police.They also hailed the police action of saving the girl.The other cops injured in the mishap were identified as constables Bashir Ahmed and Shehnawaz Ahmed Cops crash gypsy agaisnt electric pole to save girl.

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