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Meerut: If you visit the Nauchandi police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerrut, chances are you won’t find any sanitiser bottles that have become a common fixture at public places during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Instead, you will be most likely welcomed with a sprinkle of Gangajal (water from the Ganges river) and a chandan tilak.
Nauchandi police station SHO Prem Chand Sharma has devised a novel approach to fight the pandemic and crime in his area.
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Meerut: If you visit the Nauchandi police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerrut, chances are you won’t find any sanitiser bottles that have become a common fixture at public places during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Instead, you will be most likely welcomed with a sprinkle of Gangajal (water from the Ganges river) and a chandan tilak.
Nauchandi police station SHO Prem Chand Sharma has devised a novel approach to fight the pandemic and crime in his area.
As per the cop, the Gangajal is India’s ancient sanitiser and kills the germs while smearing of chandan paste on visitor’s foreheads helps calm them down and solve their issues quickly.
In a video posted by Twitter user Piyush Rai, the SHO can be seen entering the Nauchandi police station in UP’s Meerut district with a bottle of Gangajal.
Soon after that, several bottles of Gangajal were lined up on his table.
He is also seen sprinkling the Gangajal in his room while chanting ‘sanitising mantras’.
In another video, posted by the same Twitter user, SHO Prem Chand Sharma tells a local reporter that the gangajal and chandan paste were meant to have a calming effect on anyone who visited the police station.