A gesture that shows cops have hearts, too, police officers are offering free food and hand sanitizers to the poor and the needy.
With all restaurants closed in the city until April 15, homeless people are struggling even for a square meal a day.
Bengaluru police’s initiative stands in sharp contrast to the conduct of their co-professionals in other parts of the country who allegedly assaulted migrant workers walking thousands of kilometres to reach home.

Yeshwantpur police have gone a step further ahead and hired a cook to prepare food for the needy. Women police officers are assisting the cook in food preparation. Police sub-inspector Prashanth Gowda and his colleagues are taking the food to the needy people and distributing it to them.

The Karnataka government on Saturday said state run Indira Canteen would provide food packets for free of cost to the poor and needy in the wake of lockdown. During the scheduled hours, street side vendors, labourers poor and would be provided food for free of cost.