By Our Staff Reporter
Dehradun, 3 Dec: Under the Good Samaritans Scheme, the local people who saved those injured in the bus accident in Dhumakot area of Pauri Garhwal were honoured with a total cash prize of Rs 85,000 and a citation.
It may be noted that on October 04, near Simdi village under Dhumakot police station area of Pauri Garhwal district, a procession bus fell into a deep gorge; as a result 34 people died and 19 were injured. In this difficult situation, the local people (Janardan Prasad Joshi, Rajesh Kumar, Sandeep Singh, Dinesh Singh Rawat, Jitendra Singh, Sandeep Singh, Ashish Joshi and Pravendra Singh) cooperated a lot with the police in the relief, search and rescue work.

“People are afraid to give information to the police thinking the police will ask many questions, but the most important of these is to save someone’s life, that’s why this scheme has been started. You guys are the first people in this state to get this award and you all have done very well. We are grateful to all of you for taking the risk and doing such great work,” he said.
On this occasion, Additional Director General of Police, PAC: PVK Prasad, Additional Director General of Police, Crime and Law and Order: V Murugesan, Inspector General of Police, Intelligence and Security: AP Anshuman, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Traffic: Mukhtar Mohsin, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Garhwal Zone: Karan Singh Nagnyal, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Crime and Law and Order, P Renuka Devi, along with other officers were present.