Wednesday, February 5, 2014

KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR.........

Acting like a knight in shining armour and coming to the aid of a woman in acute distress is certainly not without it's pitfalls and harassment at the hands of over zealous men in khakhi as this Noida resident realised much to his dismay and consternation.........
A call centre employee was allegedly abused, intimidated and finally molested by three men inside a Maruti Swift car right outside her office in Noida's sector 135 in the wee hours of Thursday.........
This macabre incident occurred when the said employee stepped outside her office with a couple of female colleagues in tow at around 2 am for a quick bite and that much desired cuppa of chai.........
In her statement made before the Noida police alleged that the three men sitting inside the above mentioned car started spewing venom and the filthiest of abuses the very minute they saw her and her female friends, they subsequently made a furtive attempt to drag me into the car but soon gave up and fled away from the spot in undue haste as soon as I raised a hue and cry by screaming at the top of my voice.........
The screaming and ranting by their supposed victim deterred the rogues inside in the car only momentarily; they happened upon the very same spot after about ten minutes or so and made yet another foolhardy and equally fruitless attempt to grab the woman and pull her into their car.........
Their second attempt however came to naught as the employees and other menfolk inside the refreshment stall rushed outside on hearing the victim's screams, vandalised the car and also roughed up one of the occupants somewhat before the occupants of the car sped away from the spot that had abruptly become too hot for comfort.........
One can put money down every time and wager a bet on the fact that the local police personnel will always favour the so called high and mighty in all such cases and register fraudulent and patently false cases against the perennially abused lower middle classes in an effort to assuage their higher ups and give one the impression that they are indeed hard at work.........
Lo and Behold!!!! the sector 135 police personnel remained true to form and registered cases against one of the employees of the refreshment centre for vandalising the car and disturbing the peace and compounded their insanity and inhumanity by detaining the very same person in the local police station for a few hours.........
They only relented and released the knight in shining armour Shekhar Chauhan after the alleged victim rushed to the local police station after being intimated about the startling developments on this front by the youth's uncle and refreshment stall owner Rishipal Chauhan........
" I reported for work at around 11:30 am as usual but was startled out of my wits when I was informed that Shekhar had been apprehended by the local cops and incarcerated in the lock up on trumped up charges of vandalism and causing damage to my assailants car".........
" The station in charge refused to accept my plea and register a complaint against the three men who attacked me and I had to literally run from pillar to post to get a FIR/complaint registered against my three wannabe rapists; my efforts in this direction only bore fruit after the Senior Superintendent of Police heard me out patiently and duly instructed the area police station personnel to register a FIR against the three men and immediately release Shekhar without any further ado", the flabbergasted woman concluded ...........
And people still continue to wonder why many well meaning folks like moi continue to clamour for the long delayed police reforms and cry ourselves hoarse about the immediate need to professionalise the police force and make it accountable to the common man for it's actions, quirks, high handedness, eccentricities and idiosyncracies..........

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