The first person account of Police Sub-Inspector Priya Garud, who saved the life of a woman and her newborn, has gone viral. She had been applauded by Home Minister Anil Deshmukh for her work. Garud has penned how people tried to dodge their duties but the police didn't leave until the woman was hospitalised. mid-day had reported the police officers' heroic actions on July 8, 'Woman delivers on footpath in SoBo after hospitals refuse help.'

In a WhasApp post, Garud wrote that she had arrived from nakabandi. "I was deputed at mobile van no. 1. It was s heavy downpour and one couldn't stand. We had set a nakabandi which ended at 3 am on July 5. I told my staff that I was going to the police station to get some rest. While I was removing my raincoat, my cellphone buzzed with my colleague's call. I answered, she told me 'a senior citizen lady is crying for help at Metro junction, please come here as soon as possible'." When Garud walked to the Metro junction, a woman in her 70s told her a woman was crying for help on the footpath. Garud found the woman was in labour. Garud wrote, "Nobody was going near her due to the Corona pandemic. I went near that woman to find she was in labour pain. She had removed all her clothes too. One of my staff somehow managed and brought clothes and a sheet for her."