I'll Look After His Child Like My Own, Says Gautam Gambhir As He Pledges To Help Family Of Constable Who Died Of Coronavirus

Former India opener Gautam Gambhir has come up with yet another gesture to help the family of Amit Kumar, the 31-year-old Delhi Police constable who died on Tuesday due to coronavirus. On Wednesday afternoon, his report came back positive as he suffered with breathlessness, fever and cough.

Amit Kumar, who hailed from Haryana’s Sonepat, is the first Delhi Police personnel to have died of the virus. He is survived by his wife and three-year-old son, according to PTI. Hours after the tragic news shocked the nation, Gautam Gambhir took to Twitter to announce that he would look after Amit Kumar’s child. The legendary batsman-turned-politician announced that the Gautam Gambhir Foundation would take care of the child’s complete education, writing:

“The administration failed him. The system failed him. Delhi failed him. We can’t bring Constable Amit back, but I assure that I will look after his child like my own. GGF will take care of his complete education.”

The administration failed him.
The system failed him.
Delhi failed him.

We can't bring Constable Amit back, but I assure that I will look after his child like my own. GGF will take care of his complete education. #DelhiFailedAmit #CoronaWarriorsIndia

— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) May 7, 2020

This is not the first time, Gautam Gambhir has done something like this. In 2017, he had pledged to bear the full expenses of the martyred police officer Abdul Rashid’s daughter. Rashid, an assistance sub-inspector, was killed in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, after militants fired at him.

In the same year, the World Cup-winner had also pledged to bear the full expenses of the children of 25 CRPF personnel killed by Maoists in Chhattisgarh.

Meanwhile, the pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the world. In India, the cases are steadily rising. As per the latest update from the Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare, there are more than 35,000 active cases in the country with more 1,783 deaths.

Due to the pandemic, cricket action around the world has been suspended. If not for the pandemic, the world would have been enjoying the IPL right now. IPL 2020 was scheduled to start on March 29 but the BCCI has suspended the league indefinitely in the light of the pandemic.

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