Two days back a colleague of ours was involved in a horrific incident. Coming back home late at night, his car was hit and then he was surrounded by a bunch of goons who kidnapped him, beat him up, and extorted money. Two hours later he was let go. Yesterday and today he spent trying to get a First Information Report (FIR) registered with the police. Today I along with three other colleagues went with him as he is in no condition to deal with the Delhi Police all by himself.
I just hope I never have to go through this ever again and I do not know how the victim took all the nonsense meted out to him without losing his temper.
Yesterday he (with few other colleagues) spent time with the police trying to fix the jurisdiction. The place from where he has kidnapped has two red lights. Depending upon where he stopped his car, the jurisdiction changes. Finally at 1.00 am today morning, the jurisdication was finalized and he was told that the FIR would be lodged later in the morning.
Later today morning instead of FIR, he was questioned again and again: Where did the accident (the car being hit) happen? Which area was it? How did it happen? Did he feel anything?
Again and again he repeated that he felt the car being hit but he did not stop because he was scared. He had to finally stop at the red light when the goons caught him.
But the SHO and another police personnel were not satisfied. He was hiding something. Finally, we asked them: How does the accident matter? Is the kidnapping and the extortion justified if my colleague had caused the accident?
They said that they are police officers and that they have to get to the truth. Anyway, we finally got them to register the FIR after five hours. It still needs to be signed but that is the story for another day.
