The inspector was initially "convinced" by a senior officer at the Andheri police station that filing an FIR was not necessary and after he insisted, all the cops did was to make a 'missing mobile' entry in their station diary.
Inspector Dnyanesh Devde, attached to the DN Nagar police station, Andheri (W), was on his way back home from the police station in November when two persons knocked on the left and right side of his car near a traffic signal in Andheri (E) to divert his attention before taking away two of his expensive mobile phones.
Devde immediately approached the Andheri police station to lodge a complaint. A senior police officer "empathized" with the loss but told him an FIR was not needed, said a police officer who did not wish to be identified. The senior officer is said to have told Devde that being a policeman, he should know what police do in most of these cases.
When Devde resumed work on December 23 after a bout of illness, he got in touch with an officer at Andheri police station to know the status. After the officer said he was unaware of the case, Devde realised the theft had not even been mentioned in the station diary.
"Devde was worried he would be in trouble if his phones were misused, so he requested the Andheri police to at least to make a 'missing mobile' record in the diary," said the officer. A diary entry was finally made late December.
Devde, who is investigating officer in the October 2011 Amboli double murder case of Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandez, confirmed the incident but refused to discuss details. Senior inspector at Andheri police station Pradeep Gosavi said, "The incident was not reported to us. I am not aware of it."
An officer said in most mobile theft cases, police merely record a diary entry and issue a 'missing mobile' receipt to the victim.
"Registering an FIR means more paperwork and increases the number of cases in the crime records book. So police avoid registering cases. But this incident was serious, and the Andheri police should have registered an FIR," the officer said.
TIMES VIEW
If cops themselves are treated so shabbily by their colleagues, what hope can an ordinary citizen have of getting justice? Delivery of justice is a process that starts at a police station and it's no wonder victims of crime complain of getting a raw deal if this is what happens to a policeman. Refusal to register offences or recording a crime is also a crime and should be treated as such.
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