Amid the lockdown in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ritesh Garg and his wife Shimpi Rani, who live in ward number 5 of Mansa in Punjab, were happy and gloomy both on Thursday.
Happy because it was the first birthday of their second child Myra Garg, and gloomy because they were not able to celebrate it the way they had wanted because of the ongoing lockdown.
But in a heartwarming gesture, Punjab police made Myra’s birthday celebrations special as they delivered a cake and sing Happy Birthday on her first birthday.
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Ritesh Garg, a businessman, said, “No bakery shop in the city was open and hence it was not possible for us to get a cake for our daughter. We could not invite anyone. However, there is one Ward Police Officer (WPO) in every ward and we called him at around 10 am and told him that we wanted to buy a cake.”
He further said: “At around 4.30 pm, to our surprise, we saw WPO Gurpreet Singh ring our door bell and when we went out, we saw him holding a birthday cake for our daughter.” Singh had come on his PCR bike.
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Gurpreet did not charge anything from the family, even though they insisted. Not only did Gurpreet provide a cake to the family, but Mansa SSP Dr Narinder Bhargav also announced, that they will send cakes to families whose kids’ first birthdays fall during the lockdown period.
“We understand that the first birthday is an important memory for parents and the entire family. Hence this gesture is for them. We have asked them to inform the WPOs well in time, so that he/ she can tie up with bakers to get the cake made and later cops themselves will deliver it to their houses,” Bhargav said.
Gurpreet Singh said, “It was my niece’s first birthday last week, but we could not celebrate. So I can understand how parents feel if they are not able to celebrate their kids’ birthdays.”