This police station has a guardian angel

LUDHIANA: Police station, division number 6, is special. People come here in hundreds to pray and meditate. What’s more, each wish is granted. Built beneath the Dholewal bridge on the national highway number 1, the police station houses the ‘dargah’ (shrine) of Pir Baba Khem Shah.
Legend has it that the Pir protected the police station and its officials during the terrorist attacks of the 1980s.Terrorists have attacked and opened fire at the station more than twice. Yet nobody so much so as suffered a bruise. "It is a blessing of the Pir," said Home Guard Saroop Singh, who is the caretaker of the shrine. The saint is magnanimous, says Saroop Singh.
Nobody returns empty-handed from the shrine, he adds. He said that people came back all the time to tell him that they had got what they wished for.
It is believed that the police station was built over the Pir’s shrine. Saroop Singh said that after one such attack in the 1980s, the then SSP was informed by an orthopaedician, Dr Joginder Singh, about the background of the place.
He was told that Baba Khem Shah was a known Pir of the area and had left this world 45 years ago. He told the SSP that the policemen went unhurt during the attack as the Pir was looking over them. The SSP instantly ordered the construction of a proper shrine at the police station. Then SHO Gurjeet Singh had got the job done. At the back of the main police station, there is now a huge hall with trees and a formal stage for addressing gatherings.
Present SHO Manjeet Singh said that he knew nothing about the history of the police station. He, however, admitted that there had never been security problems when the crowd thronged at the shrine. He said that a fair was also organised in honour of the Pir in June every year.