Hindustan Times (Ranchi)

Cops make it a special birthday for Agra boy, bring cake and gifts

- Hemendra Chaturvedi hemendra.chaturvedi@htlive.com ■

AGRA: It was a birthday that this three-year-old is not likely to forget easily.

Answering a knock on the door, Shiva was greeted by a posse of policemen, cake and gifts in hand.

Shiva and his sister, Ayushi (8) used to frequent the area where the Basai police outpost was located and used to often talk to outpost in-charge Manoj Bhati.

On Thursday, both Shiva and Ayushi were at the Basai police outpost and during conversati­on told Bhati that it was Shiva’s birthday. The children returned as usual but the outpost in-charge had plans.

In the evening, Bhati, Tajganj police station in-charge Anuj Kumar and Sadar circle officer Vikas Jaiswal reached Shiva’s hutment in Kalal Kheria, near the Basai police outpost, under Tajganj

It was a small gesture to bring a smile on the face of a little child. We arranged for a table, for the cake to be cut in the presence of his family. It was a wonderful feeling seeing the family elated by this gesture of Bhati

ANUJ KUMAR, police officer

police station, to surprise him.

“It was a small gesture to bring a smile on the face of a little child. We arranged for a table, for the cake to be cut in the presence of his family. It was a wonderful feeling seeing the family elated by this gesture of the police on the initiative of Manoj Bhati,” said Anuj Kumar.

Earlier, policemen from Dial 100 had reached a house in Mathura to celebrate the birthday of a one-year-old child, whose mother made a call wishing to celebrate the first birthday of her son.

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Cops celebratin­g Shiva’s birthday in Agra.
HT ■ Cops celebratin­g Shiva’s birthday in Agra.

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