saravade ([info]saravade) wrote,
@ 2009-01-05 08:57:00
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Credit Card Fraud and an Unusual New Year Gift
Recently, I received a new year greeting mail from Hemant Rath. With my memory being what it is, the name failed to ring a bell and I had to search through my mail archives to find out more. I also clicked on the links in the mail and landed up at Hemant's blog. The latest entry in the blog 'Credit Card Fraud and an Unusual New Year Gift' explained a lot.

So, I promptly decided to copy the title of his blog post for mine. It is gratifying when whatever good deeds you do come back to visit you in an unexpected fashion. Thanks for the joy, Hemant.

However, Hemant's experience with the police (as narrated by him) is not very enthusing and that's where the need for police reforms (a theme I keep harping on) comes in. After the recent Mumbai terror attacks, there is a greater interest and awareness about police working among citizens. This is a very welcome sign and if sustained, will lead to the pressure of public expectation on the vested interests in government and police to be open for the much-needed change.



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(Anonymous)
2009-01-12 12:38 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for sharing this incident and moreover for going out of your way in helping out the victim of fraud in filing an FIR with the local police department.

I had one question and was wondering if you would be willing to answer it - Section 154 of the CrPC allows sending the complaint by post to the SP/DCP in the event the police station officials refuse to file an FIR.

My question is: would this have been a viable option? Or in other words do the police take these postal complaints as seriously as in-person complaints?!

Thanks for your time.

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[info]saravade
2009-01-12 05:24 pm UTC (link)
The process does not work well in practice. The SP/DCP generally sends the complaint back to the same police station and the factors which prevented it from being registered in the first place, are still operating. Thanks to antiquated systems, the SP/DCP is not able to monitor implementation of his instructions.

It is well known that there is severe under-registration of criminal cases by India. If you are interested, please take a look at the Jalpaiguri Experiment report (http://www.geocities.com/nsaravade/jalpaiguri_exp.pdf).

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