Police drill: Give victims the runaround, crooks free run
By:Praveen Kumar
Pervert molests techie and flees as cops drag their feet
Vidya (name changed) has been a resident of the city for the last 10 years and in all that time, has rarely missed her evening walk behind herapartment on Bannerghatta Road. Thursday, April 3, appeared not so different for Vidya, an employee of Oracle, until an incident occurred that has left her shattered.
“I was taking my daily walk just before dinner,” Vidya told Bangalore Mirror. “At around 8.15 pm, I was nearClarence School in Dollars Colony, J P Nagar, when a man on a Honda Activa stopped and asked me for directions to Bannerghatta Road. I began telling him how to get there when he suddenly grabbed and molested me before speeding off. I was repulsed and terrified, but I kept my wits. I chased the scooter and noted down its registration number (KA-01-EH-834). I then called the police control room .”
But instead of empathy and quick action from the city police, all that Vidya, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, experienced was colossal inefficiency and neglect. Vidya requested the control room to flash a message to other police in the area to catch the pervert, but instead, the voice at the other end of the line coolly told her to go to the MICO Layout police station and file a complaint.
Determined that the pervert should be nabbed, Vidya rushed to comply. At the MICO Layout station, police gave her a patient hearing before eventually telling her that she was at the wrong police station. An utterly flabbergasted Vidya was told to go to the JP Nagar police station. By the time she got there, more than an hour had elapsed since the incident.
“My concern was that the pervert should not escape and molest other women,” Vidya said. “Had the police decided to act, it would have been easy for them to nab the man since I had given them the registration number. I kept telling the police to act swiftly and take immediate action, but till date, there has been none. The J P Nagar police who registered my complaint said that they would contact me after catching the pervert, but it has been five days and I am yet to hear from them. What if the pervert is actually a psychopath and is on a spree of molesting more women?”
Eight hours prior to the incident — at exactly 12.14 pm – Vidya claims she received a vulgar message on her mobile phone. “I have never received such a message before and I am not sure if the person who sent the message and the molester are the same person,” Vidya said. “I have given the mobile phone number from which I received the message to the police. If it is a different person, then the police have two perverts to catch. Giving them (the criminals) more time is simply inviting trouble and putting more women at risk.”
While the police drag their heels, Vidya continues to suffer from the horrific incident. She says she lives alone and is terrified of leaving her house. Even when she does, she is constantly looking over her shoulder, checking to see if she is being followed around by a monster.
When contacted, the J P Nagar police merely said that the case is under investigation and they are yet to arrest the suspect.
By:Prakruti P K
He was forced to search for lost bike in 10 stations
Imagine being made to run around not one or two, but an appalling ten police stations in less than 48 hours in order to check for your stolen vehicle in their parking lots. And that too upon the instructions of policemen at the very station under whose jurisdiction the theft occurred, because they refused to file anFIR otherwise. This was exactly what happened to 29-year-old Kishore Kanna, a senior web designer at a global IT consultancy located on K R Road. Following the wild-goose chase, Kanna finally got an FIR registered with the Banashankari police on April 4 — a full seven days after the theft.
Kanna, a resident of Srirampura, logged out after finishing his night shift on Friday, March 28, and got out of the building at around 4 am — only to find his Yamaha RX 135 missing. When he woke up some neighbours with his shouts, they told him to approach the Banashankari police station, as the area was under their jurisdiction.
Upon rushing there, Kanna was dismayed when cops listened to his story and proceeded to take out a map of the area, saying he was at the wrong police station. They told him he had to go to the Basavanagudi Police, so away he went. When he reached the latter station early in the morning, a constable reportedly made a note of the ’missing vehicle’ in the police diary and shooed him off, telling him to come back at 10 am the next day with the bike’sRC book to meet an ASI.
“When I went back to the Basavanagudi police station on Saturday, a policeman accompanied me to the spot of the theft and told me that the location matched the Banashankari Police’s jurisdiction. Left with no choice, I was sent back to the Banashankari Police and told to give a written complaint. However, the cops there told me they were “busy” and refused to file an FIR. They kept making excuses saying my bike must not have been properly locked, and that it must have been towed away,” Kanna told Bangalore Mirror.
One can only picture the techie’s utter disbelief when he was delivered strict instructions to go hunting for his own vehicle! “The Banashankari police told me they would not register a case until I was 100 per cent sure that the vehicle had not landed up in any of the surrounding police stations by accident. So I actually went and checked the parking lots of ten police stations — Thyagarajanagar, Tilaknagar, Subramanyapura, Jayanagar, JP Nagar, Chamarajpet, Kalasipalya, Kumaraswamy Layout, and of course, Banashankari and Basavanagudi, over a span of two days. Even after I went back and told them I could not locate my vehicle in any of the stations, they dilly-dallied and said they would file an FIR by evening,” he rued.
“When I went to the station on Sunday, they told me they were ‘busy’ and told me that the FIR would be registered by evening, but it wasn’t. I waited till Wednesday and approached them again. This time, I asked to meet the inspector, but was simply not permitted to. The Banashankari police told me to come back the next day to meet him. I waited for nearly three hours on Thursday too, but in vain. Desperate for help, I went back on Friday but was still not allowed to meet him. By the end of the day though, I received an SMS saying my FIR had been registered. It took me an entire week of running from pillar to post just to get a complaint lodged for a stolen vehicle,” a disgruntled Kanna lamented.
That was not all. When Kanna told the police that he suspected some mechanics at a garage opposite his office of having something to do with the theft, a sub-inspector reportedly told him to “go talk to them”. “Instead of making their own enquiries, the cops were telling me to go conduct my own investigation. Obviously, I did not want any more trouble for myself, so I did not talk to the mechanics,” he said.
When BM spoke to Joint Commissioner of Police (law and order, East) K V Sharat Chandra, he said that victims who are denied FIRs or prompt action by the police should immediately get in touch with the higher authorities. “Citizens who encounter such trouble should contact the jurisdictional ACPs or DCPs immediately to ensure that their complaint is taken seriously and filed. They can also submit a petition to any JCP or DCP mentioning the police station where they faced the problem, and we will conduct an enquiry and bring any guilty parties to book,” affirmed the JCP.
Pervert molests techie and flees as cops drag their feet
Vidya (name changed) has been a resident of the city for the last 10 years and in all that time, has rarely missed her evening walk behind her
“I was taking my daily walk just before dinner,” Vidya told Bangalore Mirror. “At around 8.15 pm, I was near
But instead of empathy and quick action from the city police, all that Vidya, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, experienced was colossal inefficiency and neglect. Vidya requested the control room to flash a message to other police in the area to catch the pervert, but instead, the voice at the other end of the line coolly told her to go to the MICO Layout police station and file a complaint.
Determined that the pervert should be nabbed, Vidya rushed to comply. At the MICO Layout station, police gave her a patient hearing before eventually telling her that she was at the wrong police station. An utterly flabbergasted Vidya was told to go to the JP Nagar police station. By the time she got there, more than an hour had elapsed since the incident.
“My concern was that the pervert should not escape and molest other women,” Vidya said. “Had the police decided to act, it would have been easy for them to nab the man since I had given them the registration number. I kept telling the police to act swiftly and take immediate action, but till date, there has been none. The J P Nagar police who registered my complaint said that they would contact me after catching the pervert, but it has been five days and I am yet to hear from them. What if the pervert is actually a psychopath and is on a spree of molesting more women?”
Eight hours prior to the incident — at exactly 12.14 pm – Vidya claims she received a vulgar message on her mobile phone. “I have never received such a message before and I am not sure if the person who sent the message and the molester are the same person,” Vidya said. “I have given the mobile phone number from which I received the message to the police. If it is a different person, then the police have two perverts to catch. Giving them (the criminals) more time is simply inviting trouble and putting more women at risk.”
While the police drag their heels, Vidya continues to suffer from the horrific incident. She says she lives alone and is terrified of leaving her house. Even when she does, she is constantly looking over her shoulder, checking to see if she is being followed around by a monster.
When contacted, the J P Nagar police merely said that the case is under investigation and they are yet to arrest the suspect.
By:Prakruti P K
He was forced to search for lost bike in 10 stations
Imagine being made to run around not one or two, but an appalling ten police stations in less than 48 hours in order to check for your stolen vehicle in their parking lots. And that too upon the instructions of policemen at the very station under whose jurisdiction the theft occurred, because they refused to file an
Kanna, a resident of Srirampura, logged out after finishing his night shift on Friday, March 28, and got out of the building at around 4 am — only to find his Yamaha RX 135 missing. When he woke up some neighbours with his shouts, they told him to approach the Banashankari police station, as the area was under their jurisdiction.
Upon rushing there, Kanna was dismayed when cops listened to his story and proceeded to take out a map of the area, saying he was at the wrong police station. They told him he had to go to the Basavanagudi Police, so away he went. When he reached the latter station early in the morning, a constable reportedly made a note of the ’missing vehicle’ in the police diary and shooed him off, telling him to come back at 10 am the next day with the bike’s
“When I went back to the Basavanagudi police station on Saturday, a policeman accompanied me to the spot of the theft and told me that the location matched the Banashankari Police’s jurisdiction. Left with no choice, I was sent back to the Banashankari Police and told to give a written complaint. However, the cops there told me they were “busy” and refused to file an FIR. They kept making excuses saying my bike must not have been properly locked, and that it must have been towed away,” Kanna told Bangalore Mirror.
One can only picture the techie’s utter disbelief when he was delivered strict instructions to go hunting for his own vehicle! “The Banashankari police told me they would not register a case until I was 100 per cent sure that the vehicle had not landed up in any of the surrounding police stations by accident. So I actually went and checked the parking lots of ten police stations — Thyagarajanagar, Tilaknagar, Subramanyapura, Jayanagar, JP Nagar, Chamarajpet, Kalasipalya, Kumaraswamy Layout, and of course, Banashankari and Basavanagudi, over a span of two days. Even after I went back and told them I could not locate my vehicle in any of the stations, they dilly-dallied and said they would file an FIR by evening,” he rued.
“When I went to the station on Sunday, they told me they were ‘busy’ and told me that the FIR would be registered by evening, but it wasn’t. I waited till Wednesday and approached them again. This time, I asked to meet the inspector, but was simply not permitted to. The Banashankari police told me to come back the next day to meet him. I waited for nearly three hours on Thursday too, but in vain. Desperate for help, I went back on Friday but was still not allowed to meet him. By the end of the day though, I received an SMS saying my FIR had been registered. It took me an entire week of running from pillar to post just to get a complaint lodged for a stolen vehicle,” a disgruntled Kanna lamented.
That was not all. When Kanna told the police that he suspected some mechanics at a garage opposite his office of having something to do with the theft, a sub-inspector reportedly told him to “go talk to them”. “Instead of making their own enquiries, the cops were telling me to go conduct my own investigation. Obviously, I did not want any more trouble for myself, so I did not talk to the mechanics,” he said.
When BM spoke to Joint Commissioner of Police (law and order, East) K V Sharat Chandra, he said that victims who are denied FIRs or prompt action by the police should immediately get in touch with the higher authorities. “Citizens who encounter such trouble should contact the jurisdictional ACPs or DCPs immediately to ensure that their complaint is taken seriously and filed. They can also submit a petition to any JCP or DCP mentioning the police station where they faced the problem, and we will conduct an enquiry and bring any guilty parties to book,” affirmed the JCP.
