In Appreciation of Honest and Sincere Traffic personnel of Gurgaon and a Lesser known Security Supervisor

Standing Tall with Pride, Constable Vikas Kumar

I am writing this post to appreciate the kind actions of three people who revived my trust in strangers, and the personnel of the Gurugram Traffic police manning the Palam Vihar crossing after sector 23-21. I was rushing up from school after the finale of the Annual Day Function of the school where I work, it was getting late in the night, at around 8:30 p.m. on the 22nd of October, and when I reached my home at 9:00 p.m. I realized to my dismay that I had dropped my wallet on the way! It had hopped out of my back pocket and fallen on the road somewhere on the way home. That day I was riding my bike owing to the traffic conditions and one of the bumps on the road might have nudged the wallet a wee bit over the lip of my pocket.

At first, I tried to retrace my route but then thought better. How would I find my purse in the middle of the road at night? Resigned to the inevitable, I returned home and informed my family that I had dropped my purse on the way. Everyone was stunned. My purse contained a good amount of cash and also my driving license, registration certificate for my car and bike, and various other identification documents. I was contemplating the tedium of getting duplicates made of all the documents when I suddenly got a call from an unknown number. The person on the other side introduced himself as Constable Vikas Kumar, Traffic Inspector West 1st (operator) of the Gurugram Traffic Police and he asked me if I had lost my purse. When I told him I had, he told me not to worry as all the documents and the cash were intact! He then told me to meet him at the cabin at the old Delhi Gurgaon Road-Palam Vihar junction.

Tejpal, HKRN Staff, Haryana Police

When I reached the cabin Constable Vikas Kumar told me that my purse had been found by Vimlesh Kumar, a Security Supervisor working for Secure India at the Shyam Sweets shop at sector 14. It seems another person tried to snatch Vimlesh's purse, but Vimlesh went to the traffic police booth at the Old Delhi Road-Palam Vihar junction. There, both Constable Vikas and Tejpal HKRN Staff, Haryana Police racked their brains wondering how to contact me. They both hit on the idea of using the POS machine to track my details by entering my driving license number. They hit the jackpot when they were able to connect with me finally!

The good Samaritan, Vimlesh Kumar

I came to know that Vimlesh had been studying for a B.Sc. Degree in Agricultural Sciences from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, but since he had a compartment in one of the papers, he could not pursue his M.Sc. Vimlesh aspires to be an Agricultural expert. He had to take a job as a Security Supervisor to make both ends meet.

The moral of this incident is that miracles do happen in life. However, what is more important is that our impression about people can be way off the mark. We regard Traffic personnel as people who are after our lives, people who are aggressive, harsh, and unreasonable, but then the actions of Constable Vikas Kumar and HKRN Staff, Haryana Police, Tejpal prove that we have some very good people working for the Police department. The least I could do in appreciation was to write about them. When I reached the cabin I was treated with great respect and offered tea and biscuits.

As for Vimlesh Kumar, I wonder how he managed to overcome the temptation of keeping the money with him and throwing my purse away. However, all I can say is that there are good people around us and we need to appreciate good deeds.

In a world that is full of deceit, corruption, dishonesty, and falsehood, it is good to know that there are people who can be trusted and depended upon. A tribute to the Haryana Police for inducted personnel who are honest. A prayer and blessings for honest and sincere people like Vimlesh Kumar. Good deeds beget success. Good Karma leads to good rewards. Both Constable Vikas Kumar and Tejpal told me that their parents had strictly told them to be honest in life, and not to take advantage of anyone as members of the Police department.