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    How cops can fix you

    By Prawesh Lama in New Delhi | Mail Today – Mon 21 Nov, 2011

    'Super’ SHO spins aweb of charges to frame innocent BPO executive. THE INSTANCES of police haughtiness may still be an inescapable part of life in the boondocks, but such an incident bang in the middle of the nation’s Capital belittles people’s faith both in law and the lawenforcers.

    In the latest such incident, the Mayapuri police recently slapped cooked-up charges on BPO executive Rajat (name changed) and threw him behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. The high point of the injustice: Rajat was accused of disturbing public peace at the very moment he was sitting inside the Mayapuri police station in front of SHO Rajender Singh Pathania and his staff to defend himself.

    After the matter went to court and the police’s vigilance inquiry nailed the tainted cops, the ‘super’ SHO was removed from his post along with two colleagues for allegedly forging papers to illegally detain the west Delhi resident. Pathania was shifted to south district and given an ‘ inconsequential’ posting pending a departmental inquiry, which was scheduled to begin on Thursday.

    The victim’s father, Deepak Verma, said no one turned up for the departmental inquiry on Thursday. “I reached the DCP (south) office at exactly 11 am but neither the additional DCP nor the Mayapuri SHO and the other policemen were present. I have been asked to come again on November 21. I hope this is not a delaying tactic,” he added. Incidentally, Pathania is a ‘super’ SHO who has worked at many high- profile police stations, including Karol Bagh (considered the most lucrative).

    In Delhi Police parlance, a ‘super’ SHO is one who continues to head a ‘sensitive’ police station beyond the six year tenure. Pathania had even been served a contempt notice for allegedly daring a lower court judge by yelling at him that he was “not touched” despite even the high court initiating action against him.</p><p> The current case against Pathania took place on September 27, 2009, when Rajat and his cousin — on their way to the local market in Mayapuri — noticed that a bhandara (a religious function where free meals are distributed) had resulted in a traffic snarl. When Rajat enquired from the organisers if they had the requisite permissions, a scuffle ensued between the parties.

    Deepak said: “The organisers called up the PCR but reached a private hospital instead of waiting for the police. We got to know on September 29 about the police case. It was a case of causing simple hurt (which is a non- cognisable offence) but they soon added Section 341 (wrongful restraint) to the FIR to make it a much more serious offence. The fraudulent addition has since been deleted by the court and noted by the vigilance department in its report.

    “When my son was arrested on October 3, we went to the police station to bail him out but the police refused to let him out. Shockingly, the police said my son had again disrupted the peace in the area when he was caught fighting on October 3 too. How is that possible when he was at the police station throughout the day?” the anxious father asked.

    While the SHO and his subordinates have been taken to task for implicating and wrongly arresting the complainant under CrPC Sections 107/ 151, west district’s former DCP Sharad Agarwal — at whose instance the first case was registered — has been let off by the police brass. “My son lost his job after the police jailed him in the false case. Besides, there was no police or MCD permission for the bhandara ,” Deepak said.

    Andaman DIG Sharad Agarwal, who was then the DCP (west), said he did not remember the case. “I don’t remember the case or the complainant. A lot of complainants come to meet a district DCP. I do not know either the complainant or the other party involved in the case,” he said. Pathania and his staff also lied in the court that Rajat was disrupting public peace. The cops prepared a false arrest memo six days after the incident.

    VIGILANCE NAILS SHO’S LIE
    Probing Deepak’s complaint, the vigilance department found several discrepancies in the police report. In the doctored arrest memo of October 3, Deepak’s signature at the police station confirmed that Rajat was rearrested at 7.30 pm. “… The complainant marked the time as 7.30 pm while the medical examination at the DDU Hospital was conducted at 7.40 pm… which is not possible in this short duration,” the vigilance report, signed by Jt CP (Vigilance) N. Dilip Kumar, states.

    It also negates the memo regarding the October 3 “street fight” and the presence of “eyewitnesses”, besides stating that there was no PCR call as claimed by the police. It also nails the police lie by stating that the daily diary (DD) entry for October 3 showed that Rajat was arrested at 8.50 pm while the medical examination took place at 7.40 pm.

    ALLEGATIONS against DCP Sharad Agarwal: He recommended to the SHO that a case be registered against Rajat and his cousin for the Sept 27 scuffle. Stringent provisions of law were wrongly added to the non-cognisable case. This addition has been deleted by the court and noted by the vigilance department, but still no action has been taken against Agarwal.

    ALLEGATIONS against SHO Rajender Singh Pathania and others: When Rajat was arrested on October 3 for the September 27 incident, Pathania and his men denied him bail. Instead, they cooked up a story about him being involved in another brawl on October 3, at the time when he was inside the police station, so he could be arrested on the charge of disrupting peace. Police prepared false papers, reports and witnesses to frame him. A departmental inquiry has been ordered against the SHO and his subordinate staff.

    Reproduced From Mail Today. Copyright 2011. MTNPL. All rights reserved.

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    172 comments

    • Peter
      Peter  •  6 months ago
      50% of the crime in India is started by the Police itself...as they are pathetic while communicating to their own Citizen's and extremely unprofessional at their work that common man feels unsafe however it should be opposite.
      • rajat
        rajat 6 months ago
        this type of police gives rise to Maoism
      • Bharat DESHA
        Bharat DESHA 6 months ago
        Yaha ek SINGHAM hi chahiye.
    • mohammed
      mohammed  •  6 months ago
      thats why 100% of indians dont have any faith in our police force
      • bhai
        bhai 6 months ago
        not only that we dont have any faith in government, Administrative machinery, and politicians.
    • j.s.murthy
      j.s.murthy  •  6 months ago
      The inquiry against the police officer should be initiated and if the police report is found to be false, case under 120B IPC should be filed against him. The affected person should be given compensation and a defamation case should be filed against the officer responsible for the crime and the defamation amount should be recovered from the police officer who is responsible for wrongful confinement of the citizen. If does't have liquid cash, his properties should be auctioned and defamation amount should be paid to the effected citizen.
      • rajat
        rajat 6 months ago
        inquiry my foot remember gujarat inquiry , headed by same officer who is implicated in encouters . Delhi police is Judge jury, jailor , hangman all in one
      • Saloni
        Saloni 6 months ago
        I agree with you fellas
      • Piyush291988
        Piyush291988 6 months ago
        do you really think this case would be remembered so long until the inquire completes.. give them money(compensation) and a national apology.
        And if really possible get them bald make their face black with a paint and make them sit in front of their own police station with only their undergarment on.................
        even then i don't think this huge humiliation will stop them from doing this kind of action again..
    • RC
      RC  •  6 months ago
      It is a shameful event. So called protectors of the ppl are working as goons in the city but it should also be realised that all are not the same. It may be other way aroud also but inquery should be completed immediatly so that perpetrators of the law may be brought to the books.
      • whatever
        whatever 6 months ago
        yes, all are not the same but unfortunately its true that more (if not most) police are either themselves corrupted or just working as puppet for some politicians. Who a common man can trust on, other than a few people like Anna Hazare?
    • sameer
      sameer  •  6 months ago
      thats the reason they are super SHO because they cant be touched by anyone as they have politicians in their pockets & they make up crimes & implicate the common man & make a hype of the case so that real cases where they have vested intrests are ignored.
      Such is the shabbiness of our police department. Who can do anything about it. No one Because we are all afraid that we shall be harassed. Here comes the role of the press they should make a hue & cry of this matter so that such super SHO's are not let of easily. See the brazennes of the then DCP Mr. Agrawal why will he remeber such a case. If there was public outcry & press had done something about it yes he would have remembered the case. How can nobody turn up for the hearing. This means that if u r police you can get away with anything. No use crying over spilt milk because noithing will happen to the guilty they shall go scot free & the innocents life has already been shaken.
    • anshul
      anshul  •  6 months ago
      well the first word that comes to my mind after reading this is WARDI WALE GUNDE........this is one case that came into light.There might be thousands of similar incidents which are waiting to be disclosed......
      • Tarun
        Tarun 6 months ago
        they also have the support of the PARLIAMENT WALE GUNDE...
    • DEV
      DEV  •  6 months ago
      I hope common people realize from this incident that many people who r put behind bars r not real-culprit.the police and investigation agencies doing there work is all fake
    • Manohar
      Manohar  •  6 months ago
      Rajinder Singh Pathania should be locked in a prison and the keys must be thrown into the sea.
    • Insolver
      Insolver  •  6 months ago
      We need to find the godfathers of this police officer. It should be easy as the Godfather would have promoted the cause of this person, and also bailed him out of trouble. It is necessary to expose the supporter every time we have a front-liner caught red handed. Punishments for law enforcers has to eb a order of magnitude severe than for others.
    • Akaylaa
      Akaylaa  •  6 months ago
      The SHO and the DCP should be hanged to death
    • venkateshwara rao
      venkateshwara rao  •  6 months ago
      SHO should be dismissed as no further charges have to be proved. The DCP should be punished. The Honorable court should give directions to the employer of Mr.Rajat to take him on job immediately.
    • Sugato
      Sugato  •  6 months ago
      In the past, the Delhi Police has been found to be involved in fake encounters, in which innocent civilians had lost their lives. Can't the court just hang Pathania and Agarwal? Of course they can't and everybody knows why. So forget about it all Rajat. Don't protest. Just live like a coward in modern India and you will be safe and glorified.
    • Amit
      Amit  •  6 months ago
      Delhi Police/UP police/MP police/Bihar police,Kewal chehre aur naam badlenge,habbits sabki ek jaisi hi hai lekin uparwala bhi inke bacchho ko ya to kutte ki maut marta hai ya phir unki bodypart ko hi bekar kar deta hai.
    • Sureshkant
      Sureshkant  •  6 months ago
      Sir, Now time is come that media should also take up the way of Functioning of Police in Rural India, nexus between Politicians and Police is no more surprising news, the behavior of Police with Baba Ramdev, Shree Anna Hazare, Shree Arvind Kezriwal and Shree Manish Sisodia is enough to understand the situation,
    • Balakrishnan
      Balakrishnan  •  6 months ago
      If this report is true, it is a fit case for the government concerned to do a "Nitish" here. Let the State Vigilance probe the "disproportionate assets" of these apparently corrupt police personnel and convert the buildings to schools. If there is any land owned by them courtesy such corruption, let that land be converted to parks for public use.
      Let us have some fresh air in this country.
    • ferdin
      ferdin  •  6 months ago
      After due enquiry , the victim should be given compensation for loss of income with due hike and interest, mental agony , physical strain , court charges. The compensation should be given from the PF accounts of the perpetrators and an apology letter from the police signed by their highest authority for falsely implicating the victim resulting in loss of respect.
      The justice should be given.
    • parmjit
      parmjit  •  6 months ago
      pople like pathania offer their daughters ad wifes to become super sho and they are backed by the dirty leaders who should be hanged in public or should meet the fate of Gaddafi
    • rajat
      rajat  •  6 months ago
      what is the diference between street goondas and police ...none . police no one can touch them even their children even if they commit rape . the case of Odissa DGP absconding son has faded away from memoray of ever vigiklent media .
      Police are law in to themselves . it appears the qualification for recruitament is high sadistic and despotic and cruel mind set streak
    • shri
      shri  •  6 months ago
      Its high time that Police act is amended to make its cadre accountable. No FIR/Case should be registered without audio/videography or tell tale evidence.Does it need another ANNAS MOVEMENT?????
    • naini
      naini  •  6 months ago
      This is the reason that people do not have faith in Delhi Police. They r slur on Delhi. The court should have ordered filing of an FIR against the SHO and the DCP concerned. Though all policemen are not the same, yet the department has definitely a bad name. The Policemen who voilated the civil rights should be prosecuted.
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