A few coins, four ATM cards and a picture of Lord Shiva inside a wallet kept in the inner side of his jacket miraculously shielded a police constable from a bullet fired at him during the violent anti-citizenship law protests in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district.
Constable Vijender Kumar was on duty on Saturday as protests unfolded in Firozabad as well as other parts of Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere in the country over the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
He said, "I was on duty in my riot gear when a bullet fired by rioters hit my body. It tore past the jacket but got stuck in the wallet kept in the inner side of the jacket at chest's position. The wallet contained a few coins, four ATM cards and a picture of Lord Shiva."
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