A 16-year-old from Khar West owes her life to a woman constable of Khar police station. When the teenager slit her wrist on Sunday, the constable rushed the girl to hospital. The woman constable is Nikita Mhatre attached to the Nirbhaya squad. Constable Mhatre was also felicitated by the Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Satyanarayan Chaudhary at the police commissioner’s office, on Tuesday.

According to the police, the girl, a resident of Rajasthan had come to Mumbai with her parents for work. The woman and her parents were staying at a dharmashala at Khar west. On Sunday, the parents had gone out for work and while she was alone in the room, she slit her wrist with a blade. The dharmshala staff immediately informed the police.