Price of Kindness

Back to ARC

When Colonel Ritwik Kumar (name changed) picked up a road accident victim and put him in his car, little did he know that his journey wouldn’t end at the hospital. The Good Samaritan in him had rushed the critically injured young man to the nearest hospital in the cantonment area of Delhi. Four years later, in 2012, Kumar received a summons to appear before a district court in Delhi. Posted to Manipur now, he makes visits to the capital whenever the case comes up for hearing.

“Kumar is an example of how Good Samaritans get harassed by our legal system,” says Piyush Tewari, founder and president of the Save Life Foundation, a Delhi-based nongovernment organization working on community-driven emergency medical response. “It’s time we had a Good Samaritan law to protect people from such hassles,” he adds.

Download

Source: The Telegraph

Together we can save millions of lives.
Become a member

Sign up for our newsletter

Marketing Permissions
Please select all the ways you would like to hear from Global Road Safety
Partnership:

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails or by contacting grsp@ifrc.org. For information about our privacy practices, please visit our website.

We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing.
Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here.