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LADY SINGHAM
- The night of July 8 has been a tipping point for Sunita Yadav, the LRD police officer who is otherwise also now known as ‘Lady Singham’. Almost unconcerned of the support she is garnering on social media.
- ‘Lady Singham Sunita Yadav’ became a household name in Surat( stopping Prakash Kanani, son of Kumar Kanani MoS health for Government of Gujarat.
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- On the night of July 8, she said she was left alone by several officers who were supposed to be with her at the checkpoint. She says, she had not been trying to create any controversy and there is a deeper reason for making the video which now almost every person in the country has watched.
- She claimed that the entire system is to be blamed. She pointed out the politician – police nexus, and that the night of the incident was not the first time that someone had tried to intimidate her..
- “ Even if it was the President, I would have stopped him and questioned him,” Yadav said.
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- “You would have been marching with candles in your hands for me. I was intimidated, and there was no help what so ever from my seniors,” Yadav said.
- But now, she claims she will be taking a step back from her duty. She will be studying and preparing for becoming an IPS officer. The reason, she expressed, was her frustration on not being able to do anything at all because her post is even below a constable.
ISSUE
- “Without the public, we are nothing. I am a khakhee uniform before I am Sunita Yadav. Posts are irrelevant. The uniform should be respected. For me, it will always be that way,” she said before she got up to give her resignation.