Mysuru: A pregnant woman had to walk for over 600 meters to reach a hospital because the Police forced her to do so. The insensitive Police refused to allow the ambulance that was carrying the pregnant woman as they had blocked the road for the Chief Minister’s convoy to pass.

The incident occurred in Mandya yesterday where the CM was scheduled to visit Nagamangala to inaugurate a series of development works. Though the event was scheduled in the morning, the CM reached Mandya only in the afternoon.

Meanwhile, awaiting the CM’s arrival, the Mandya Police had blocked certain patches on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway. One of those patches was between Bellur and Mandya (B.M. Road).

While one side of the road was blocked for CM’s cavalcade to pass, the other side was turned into a two-way.

At around 12.30 pm just as CM arrived, an ambulance came from a nearby village carrying a pregnant woman. When the ambulance came near the B.M. Road, the driver realised that the road was blocked. The woman was to be taken to a hospital on that side of the blocked road.

The ambulance driver got down from the vehicle and requested the Policemen to clear way for the vehicle as it had a pregnant woman who needed urgent treatment.

Displaying complete lack of sensitivity, the Police asked the woman to walk till the hospital instead.

Left with no option, the pregnant woman, assisted by her male relatives, walked over half-a-kilometer to the hospital.

Shockingly, the Police did not even offer to take the woman in their jeep which was parked close by. Instead, they just stood lethargically as the woman walk past them.

Fortunately, the exhausted woman received immediate medical attention and her condition is said to be stable now.

Mandya sp reacts, Home guards scapegoat?

Reacting to the reports of Police insensitivity, Mandya Superintendent of Police G. Radhika told Star of Mysore this morning that action would be taken against the guilty Policemen.

“There is a strict instruction to the Police Department not to stop ambulances and make way for them under any circumstances. My officers have denied that such an incident happened on B.M. Road yesterday. I have just got information that some Home Guards have forced the woman to get down from the ambulance. I will enquire about it and will initiate action,” she said.

Interestingly, in the photograph taken by members of the public, it is clearly seen that there is a Police jeep and Policemen standing beside it. There are no Home Guards in sight. Are the Police making Home Guards a scapegoat?

When a Police stopped CM to make way for ambulance

While this incident shows the insensitivity of Police, we must also recall times when Policemen have been sensitive. It may be recalled that on Oct. 5 this year, Kuvempunagar Traffic Sub-Inspector Siddegowda and Head Constable Ramesh were praised for stopping the CM’s convoy on the Ring Road to make way for an ambulance.