MOHALI – It has been six hours since Harpreet Kaur last sat down for a meal, but she is not fasting for India’s success. She is one of the many policewomen on duty at the PCA stadium.
“This is turning out to be a forced fasting for me,” the 23-year-old laughed wearily as she lit a stove to prepare some tea in a small cubicle. “Everybody is talking about the pressure on the teams to win the match. Nobody talks about us, there is so much pressure on us from our senior officers. We have been told to frisk every bag at least twice and conduct complete body checks each time someone enters the ground. I think everything is being hyped up unnecessarily. It does not seem just to be a match between two sides,” she said.
Another policewomen Supriya Kumari, 32, said she knew it would be a tough assignment when she was told that she will have to be on duty for the match.
