Cops don't file FIR to 'check' crime

Kumar Rakesh / TNN / Mar 22, 2007, 02:54 IST

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Two Pulsar-borne youths snatched the mobile phone of Sector 48 resident, Shital Sharma, near Sector 32-33.

CHANDIGARH: There is a simple, unwritten edict guiding police officers these days to keep crime figure under control: Don't register FIR, and if it means to resorting to falsehood, so be it.
Two Pulsar-borne youths snatched the mobile phone of Sector 48 resident, Shital Sharma, near Sector 32-33 dividing road on March 19, when she was on her way back from a temple.She was attending a call at the time of incident.
After getting over her initial shock, she chased them on her scooty, but they disappeared. And what Sector 34 police did after she informed them? They took her signatures, did not even bother to go to the spot and gave her the sweet-pill that they would try their "best" to recover the mobile.
"My mobile was working even the next day. But I do not trust the police. Snatching incidents keep occurring in that locality, but we have never heard of cops nabbing any accused," she rues. What Shital does not know is that cops suppress most of these cases so there is no question of arrest of any accused.

Two scooter-borne persons snatched the purse of one Raj Dogra, who hails from Punjab and had come here to visit her brother living in Sector 29A, near Sectors 29-30 dividing road on March 18 when she was out with her sister-in-law Usha Sharma.
"It all happened in a flash. There was no street-light, and we could not notice the scooter's number," Sharma says. The Industrial Area police did what their Sector 34 counterparts did to Shital. "She did not want to pursue the case. I have registered a detailed DDR," said SI Ashok Kumar, who dealt with the complainant.
What Ashok Kumar says is the standard police way to sweep crime under the carpet as victims, who are hardly aware of the legal course, are often scared of the "horrible" prospect of their doing rounds of police station and court if they register an FIR.

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