Dhoni to move with posse of female guards

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RANCHI: India's ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is now well and truly in the big league. For, no longer is the "privilege" of being watched over by female guards the preserve of the odd royalty and, even more spectacularly, the Libyan strongman, Col Muammar Gaddafi. Mahi, routinely mobbed by a legion of admirers, now has a posse of women cops to protect him in Ranchi.

Dhoni, who has a particularly hysterical female following, now runs the risk of becoming the darling of women constables deployed to escort him and shoo away girls trying to hug and fall over him.

For constables of the Jharkhand Armed Police, lady luck couldn't have flashed a more winsome smile. Fresh from training, they were delighted to learn that their first assignment was to escort Dhoni wherever he went. Blushing and giggling, they were a welcome departure from the usual grim-faced constables purveying Dhoni's Mecon colony bungalow.

"It's certainly an enviable assignment," gushed one of the woman cops, smart enough to avoid revealing her name, "especially since many of our colleagues are usually assigned to escort politicians."

Constables of the Jharkhand Armed Police have been entrusted with the task of escorting Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

"He (Dhoni) hasn't come out of his house since morning," a constable said. Another said: "We are the police, we are only doing our duty — whether it's Dhoni or Mayawati," said one. Dhoni is still known to shudder when reminded of a Kolkata fan, Shiuli, a young woman who dived at him from the stands at the Eden Gardens trying to hug him. "Ever since, I've stopped looking directly at girls," Dhoni tells his friends.

"The women constables have been deployed partly by chance and more by design," laughed Ranchi SP M S Bhatia, adding women cops would be in a better position to deal with fan trouble like the one in Kolkata.

Jharkhand government has given Dhoni Z-category security for his star status and unconfirmed threat perception from the Maoists.

"Although we do not discriminate on the basis of gender between our constables, in Dhoni's case, women cops have been specially trained to ward off unwanted overtures from female fans," Bhatia said.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com