HONOURING CALL OF DUTY: The officer has swapped her khaki uniform for maternity wear RAIPUR: Five months pregnant, a DSP is out on the streets, lathi in hand, ensuring lockdown in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada town. “Given the circumstances, I couldn’t stay at home,” said 29-year-old Shilpa Sahu. Sahu has swapped her khaki uniform for maternity wear but there is no mistaking the steel in her voice when she orders, “Wapas jao. Ghar jao.” “If I am out, they should know they must stay at home,” she says. The officer is more at home in anti-insurgency ops, armed with an AK-47, leading Danteshwari Fighters — a band of women commandos — against Maoists in insurgency-hit Dantewada. She had to take a break from field ops due to her pregnancy, but she ‘hasn’t taken a break from duty’.