Kolkata, July 13 -- Police constable Mahinur Khatun, 37, from West Bengal's East Burdwan district has been serving the society beyond her call of duty.

Growing up in Burdwan, Khatun has achieved a rare success. Most of her neighbours are daily wage labourers, rickshaw pullers, housemaids or street vendors. Khatun's mother sold paper bags to shops and her father was a truck driver.

During the lockdown, when Khatun did her rounds to enforce the government's stay-at-home rules and social distancing norms, she noticed the economic devastation in her neighbourhood.

"People were going door-to-door asking each other for potatoes or rice. In all my 12 years of patrolling, I had never seen things being so bad. Until recently, they had jobs and ...