Humanity takes over uniform

A woman is in labour right on the busy footpath. Her body is twisting in excruciating pain. The place is Badamtali under Agrabad of the port city Chittagong. Passers-by there look on, some take pictures or do video-record on their cell phones. Yet none but one steps forward to respond to the duty's call. Seeing the crowd, the on-duty man in uniform, an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), stationed nearby comes forward. A baby girl is born before he could realise what was happening. But to his surprise, he observes that the baby is not crying and the mother too is not well either.
Now he stops an auto-rickshaw and promptly takes the mother and baby to the emergency ward of Agrabad mother and childcare hospital. Physicians there are reluctant to accept the patient on the ground that she has no family member or guardian with her. The ASI sees the director of the hospital and pleads with him for the mother and baby's admission. The director sees to it that the new-born and the woman, deaf and dumb, are taken well care of.
This story could end here. But it doesn't.
All because the woman suffers not only from speech and hearing impairment, but also has history of mental disorder. Both the mother and the baby are released from the hospital the next day. The police officer once saved their lives by picking the two from the footpath; now he appears once again as a saviour. He takes them to his residence but the deranged mother would not stay there. Moreover, the new-born is not safe with her.
The ASI talks to his superior, an officer-in-charge, and makes arrangement for the woman's shelter on a mat and a pillow under the Dewanhat flyover. Fortunately, he knew a childless couple and on consultation with the OC, hands the child over to them. Waiting fruitlessly for long 14 years for a baby, the couple considers this a divine gift. Overjoyed by this surprise gift, the couple has vowed to do all they can to bring the baby up as their own daughter.
According to the man in uniform, nothing more could be done for the woman who has lived the life of a vagabond. She is too unstable and unmindful to take care of a baby. Most likely the baby is not a product of her own choice. Someone took advantage of her vulnerability and a life was created following the natural process. There is no possibility the girl will ever know who her father was. By all accounts, it is the best possible arrangement the police officer could do for the beautiful baby girl. The moment he saw the tiny life, something welled up in her bosom so much so that he could not think of an orphanage for its destination.
Humanity in the officer guided him well enough to take the right decision on a very critical issue. The man in uniform has gone beyond his official duty to do something that puts to test a man's inner worth. He has emerged more than triumphant in the test. Hats off to the man who has done so much for the mother and the baby! Like a few exceptional souls, notwithstanding their nature of service now maligned, the officer has brightened the image of the police.