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“Daroga ji” picked him up on some dubious information I released that so-called veteran criminal
and from then on in every following case he is being immediately. I didn’t take the money. I took the lesson for
forwarded to jail on the basis of his past record which is my life.
getting thicker and thicker with every succeeding case .”
Ultimately I detected the case and to everyone’s
“If he has been actually involved in 10 crime cases surprise it was the cousin of the complainant of the case
of theft of robbery of Rs. 20,000 each and nothing has been (the house owner) who was the real culprit. I recovered the
recovered from his possession, why is he being forwarded to stolen property from his possession as well. This made him
jail as suspect every time?” break down and confess his earlier criminal acts as well.
And let me tell you he had no criminal record!
“If he is so cunning that he succeeded in hiding the
money that he has stolen earlier why am I wearing a tattered When one ponders over this story one realises that
sari and my son is without clothes?” a sociologist who has an advantage of a formal training in his
subject to express things in a logical manner, is articulating what
“ You don’t do gasti (Patrolling). You don’t catch is basically the innate feeling of that Musahar’s biwi(wife).
right person. You commit mistakes and we suffer for your
mistakes.” First, this story clearly ridicules the kind of crime
data that is being generated at police station level. This is
I didn’t have any answer to her probing and the basic data. A great emphasis is laid on these records of
naturally kept mum. This must have soothed her feeling property offences such as crime directory, which has been
and lowering her pitch she again repeated her demand,
“Release my husband.” I was yet to recover from her shots
fired at me. I again muttered, “I will release him if I find
him innocent.” May be, this delivered a wrong message. She
looked at me suspiciously and said. “You take Rs. 500 and
release him.

Now it was my turn to get enraged. I reacted, “Why
should you offer me five hundred?” She thought I was
angry at the mention of a paltry sum. She retaliated that if
I demanded more it’s better that her husband is sent to jail.
She will be able to get him out by giving only this much of
money to “wakil sahib” (advocate). That has been her past
experience.

prepared by those officers who neither have the training nor
the wherewithal to conduct proper investigation and arrive
at the correct result. His work is also not being supervised
by superior officers. A qualified civil engineer from IIT,
Delhi, joins IPS to supervise the work of mason who has
neither the calibre nor the training nor the tools to lay the
foundation of a building. And to make the matters worse
the quality of bricks, cement, etc. is also greatly inferior.
Surprisingly, the engineer also decides to supervise the
work from his cozy office rater than toil in sun to personally
work with the mason. The seniors have done very little to
procure better quality of building materials and tools.
Secondly, this story reveals the anguish of general

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