From performing 'aartis' to demanding for a ‘sorry’ written 500 times, Indian police are going beyond the rule-book and, for a change, getting praised for it To keep 1.2 billion people indoors for weeks on end is an unenviable task.
But when India went under a lockdown on 25 March, that’s what the Indian police were charged with. As expected, there was some degree of force and violence: the police are no stranger to deploying batons on suspected law-breakers.
But it also birthed some surprisingly creative means of enforcement from personnel across the country. We compiled a few memorable ones: Writing ‘sorry’ 500 times in Rishikesh A police officer in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, likely channelled his middle-school memories while punishing a