Friday, 2 November 2012

Re: [www.keralites.net] Is your car stolen? Pray to God the police never find it

 

Dear friends, What is said about the Mumbai police is correct.In my sonscase one guy cheated him, I personally went to the police station near to VictoriaTerminus and they just released the culprit with in minutes after he was taken into custody on our complaint because ofhis influence.In the cyber offence you could have used the provisions of RTI and could have gathered the details for further follow up though initial responses may deter you from from your motive. in the car theft in Kerala also our "policy" in giving a certificate to the effect that the car is not traceable in the near future is three months . Because there is scope for misusing the provision if the police give a certificate that it is un-traceable. As a police officer who served for 28 years the delay in procuring a car which is already in the custody of the police is un pardonable.You could have approached the court directly to give your car for safe custody with anundertaken that the car will be produced as and when demanded by thecourt.Most probably the police will discard the abovecase and submit a report to the court that the above case may be treatedas Un-Detected. I will also like to tell you a naked fact that in Kerala as well as in other parts of our country the investigation of theft cases are the same ie: it ends up with one day investigation -writing a mahazar,panchnama, asking some persons (questioning witnesses in police parlance) and disposes the file as it is for months together and to escape from Superior Officers visiting remarks only Armchair case diaries will be written( with out moving out of the office)and a copy will be send to the highier ups to escape probabedisciplinary action.Of course that officer-investigating officer- will claim TA for the the places he often showd visited in the Case Diary where continuos investigation is ordered for seven days,while "conducting investigation".The superior officer who use to write remarks on the above case (which is mandatory on his part every month)file also knows that that is what he alsodid as a sub Inspector or Inspector in such cases. if at all some case are detected that may be effort of some committed constables and very few Officers with grit. For proving such cases they often keep suspects for weeks together and use all sorts of third degree methods at their own risk violating all human rights and produce such culprits with evidence often created as if he was nabbed 24 hours ago and recovered everything as per his confession.
In my opinion the only way to succumb the officials to pressure isinvoke the provisions ofRight To Information Act profusely that eventually the system will be cleansed.
PCRamachandran Nair,Supdt. of Police(Rtd),President, Human Rights Protection Mission,Kollam, Kerala.

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Abraham P.c. <pc_abraham1944@yahoo.in> wrote:

You are 100% right. I tried to nab a cyber crime criminal by reporting to a police station with all the evidence to book him and his bank account. I did not loose any money. After few days the constable called me when I was in Bangalore and asked me where I am as if I have to please him to follow up the case. I said I am out of Bombay and will be back only after 1 month (a lie) and escaped from the situation.

Our police is is the mostcorrupteddepartment in government. I suggest it should be linked with Military service.

Abraham

From: M. Nandakumar <nandm_kumar@yahoo.com>
To: Keralites <Keralites@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2012 11:39 AM
Subject: [www.keralites.net] Is your car stolen? Pray to God the police never find it

Is your car stolen? Pray to God the police never find it

My friend's wife was recently the victim of a chain snatching incident when she was out for an evening walk. Fortunately for her the gold chain around her neck broke and fell on the ground and the thief tried to escape without the chain. She raised an alarm and managed to get the thief nabbed with the assistance of the passersby. Her first reaction afterwards was to let bygones be bygones (since she clearly had not suffered any loss) and the thief had also been thrashed by the on lookers. But as a good citizen she decided to lodge an official police complaint.
That's when the trouble began!
The police arrived a good 30 minutes later and took the thief to the police station and requested my friend's wife to accompany them. She went and lodged a complaint and the process took about 3-4 hours to complete. To make it worse the police asked her to hand over the broken chain as evidence for the case which would be returned to her after the case was over. She was very reluctant but had no choice so she handed it over to the police. It took 3-4 personal visits to the police station and a good 6 months before the chain was finally restored to her.
Incidentally my friend's wife discovered that the police had claimed credit for nabbing the chain snatcher and had even been awarded by Mumbai's police commissioner.
You must be wondering why am I writing about this incident in a column devoted to personal finance?
I will connect up as to why the archaic and inefficient judicial/police system results in situations in the personal finance arena as well, that would be comic if they were not so tragic. A friend bought the case of Ravi Kant to my notice. Ravi's car was stolen from below his house and he filed an FIR with the police and then made a claim with the insurance company for the loss. Only then he realized he would have to produce a not traceable certificate which the police issues only around 3 months after the loss is reported to them and they are still not able to trace the vehicle. The insurance claim is payable only after the not traceable certificate is submitted.

In Ravi's case the vehicle was (un)fortunately traced. It had been used for a crime and then abandoned in a faraway city. He had to take a few days leave and visit the police station where the recovered vehicle was kept to give evidence. Ravi had to do a couple of rounds with the police station and then told that his car was evidence in the case against the criminals. He had the insurance company send a surveyor to inspect the vehicle for any loss but the vehicle was in an okay condition. The vehicle has been gathering dust in the police station compound for quite a few months even as I am writing this article. Of course there is no chance of the insurance company paying him anything and he has had to take a car loan to buy a new car. Now Ravi is cursing his Bad luck that the police actually found his stolen car. If they had not found it he would have been paid the claim by the Insurance Company and would not have to go through so many hassles. Now he will get back the car after it has depreciated substantially.

Clearly a criminal judicial system that requires stolen items to be kept as evidence' till the case reaches a certain level must change or we will continue to have law abiding citizens wishing that the police are not able to trace their stolen car!

Courtesy: Yahoo India

Nandakumar
www.keralites.net



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