Four labourers — two each from Odisha and Balumath in latehar district — never knew each other but after a head on collision of their bikes coming from opposite direction last night at Seregara in Balumath, the four not only knew each other but also saw a big and helping face of a police officer Nand Kishore Prasad the OC Balumath police station.
Sources said the four Pantir Nath Manak Sai ( Orissa) Pintu Ganjhu and Binod Ganjhu ( Balumath) were on two bikes which met with a head on collision leading to the injuries to all the four wherein one had a fracture of leg while three others were bleeding profusely. The accident took place around 12 last night.
Nand Kishore Prasad OC Balumth police station rushed to the site of accident and arranged ambulance for these four to be taken down to Ranchi.
OC Balumath police station Nand Kishore Prasad said, “ Ambulance was available but there was none to drive it as the driver of it has been sent to Deoghar for Shravani Mela”. He said it took some time to find a man to sit at the wheels of this ambulance.
SP latehar Anoop Birtharey said today that the OC saved the life of a tribal girl who is a minor. “This tribal girl was bitten by a poisonous snake. Her father was too poor to meet the expenses of her treatment in Ranchi. The father was about to take his daughter to a quack/jhar funk karney wala when my police officer Nand Kishore reached there and helped this family in a great way,” he said.
Prasad recalled, “ The ten year old tribal girl Deventi was bitten by a Karait snake. Her father had no money with him. I gave him 1,000 rupees in cash and sent the father daughter to Ranchi by an ambulance with 20 litres of fuel.” Prasad is too happy that the girl is recovering fast in RIMS Ranchi.
locals said this police officer is the ambassador of police , which otherwise has earned a bad name in the past few weeks for its shabby treatment to children in police stations in Bundu and Manika.
This cop rushes out in the dead of night to help people in dire need of medical assistance. Doling out cash, arranging ambulance, filling vehicle's tank with fuel are some of the jobs that this cop does with no publicity or show said the residents of Balumath.
Sources said a woman in distress was given more than Rs 6 lakhs by her husband who had abandoned her after 8 years of marriage. This cop Nand Kishore Prasad got this done for the woman in distress. Prasad accepted to have intervened in this case.