The crazy cops

Well after reading a hilarious blog on Sony vs the blackberry curve, reality finally struck..I had lost my phone the Imate K-Jam a couple o days back.

No folks... my first reaction was of joy. Wow can i switch back to my regular no nonsense Nokia or Sony Erickson with no periphery mails where I can finally hear the how my friends sound again on the phone. For a few months now the only sentences they would've heard from me is - sorry...what was that...I cant hear you....click..My gosh these PDAs are a terror and have put its customers through such torture!

Well my happiness was shortlived as the realization dawned that the phone was actually my office's property so I had to lodge an FIR at the Noida police station at sector 20. Well if it was mine, I would have surely not done any thing about it especially in this part of the country which is known for the notorious cops. But nevertheless accompanied by a stud Admin guy I went to the Police Station to get an FIR lodged.

Scene 1: I enter with our stud man and the broken down house converted to a police station had 30 police men all who exuded tremendous arrogance. I went straight into some room and kept standing...you see the ambiance suggests don't speak unless spoken to. Our stud man was speaking loudly on the phone. A police chappie rudely ticks him off and asks him to leave the room. Kya samajhta hain apne ko, police chowki main phone..(basically how can anyone make them feel less imporatant) Me being a lady..the cop couldn't talk to me directly so asked another lady there - 'in memsahab ko kya chahiye?' Well I replied to him that someone snatched my phone and ran and that I need an FIR for the insurance claim. Well the bloke told me to write something about it being lost in a plain paper and give it to him.

Scene 2: Well folks if you've forgotten to write English with a pen and paper, try writing Hindi!!!! After an hour of trying hard to lodge an FIR, I retired on a chair where as the stud finally started doing what he was supposed to. I saw him with some cop who looked like a Hindi movie cop all ready to kill anyone outta arrogance. Huh...so I looked elsewhere..some guys were filming a vegetable vendor who was lying in torn clothes, crying loud as he was beaten up by cops as he failed to give them his daily hafta of Rs 500. Poor man..the sarcastic remarks of the cops and the local press didn't seem to sink in and he kept telling his story loud to anyone who would hear.

Scene 3: I walked out of the smelly dilapidated station and sat in my car where I heard this lady in blue telling a story about how her son was picked up by the police for hooliganism and locked up. 2 years earlier the police had locked up another son for murder and now she had no one to go to. The sons she says are badly beaten up in the lockup. These stories will not make it to any breaking news I am sure. I wonder why I only saw citizens there who were trying to register cases against cops!!!!

The sight here seeing the population of India that lives on daily wages and the police walas who thought they were the SVPs of the district..got me back to another reality..aah babes this is also India...ahem..

Finally the stud comes out looking extremely drained of all energy. The poor man dealing with these cops can stress anyone even a super hero I think...Well the final analysis:

1) You cannot lodge an FIR in Noida, no matter how big the crime reported is. Eg in the Nithari case where the police refused to lodge an FIR for missing children or a friend who recently lost a debit card and someone had purchased 2 ipods with it.
2) You can lodge an FIR if you have lost your slipper in the river if you are willing to shell out some money.