CHANDIGARH: The UT police saved a woman from committing suicide with her 4-year-old son at Mauli Jagran village on Saturday noon. The family has no money for food and medicine due to covid-19 curfew.

Since the lockdown, the daily wager family is out of work, broke, and starving. After the police control room received an alert on telephone that the woman had left home to take the extreme step, DSP Dilsher Chandel of the east division along with Mauli Jagran SHO Zuldan Singh reached the area, traced Ramdevi, 27, and counselled her.

Ramdevi told police that due to lockdown, she had no money for the food, medicines, and treatment of her son, so she had no other way of ending her miseries. The DSP and the SHO arranged food for their family and gave it some money for medicine. Police promised to continue to feed her family and help treat her son. After this assurance from police, Ramdevi returned home with her son.

The beat staff will keep the family under surveillance for some days.