WHAT COULD be a bigger instance of insubordination in the Lucknow Police than a station officer (SO) ignoring directives of an additional SP for over 10 months for registering an FIR.
Liquor trader Rakesh Kumar Jaiswal has been running from pillar to post to get an FIR lodged after his shop was grabbed allegedly by his partners on April 11, 2005. SO Aashiana KK Yadav, known for his proximity with powers-that-be, refused to register a case into Jaiswal’s complaint saying that the latter’s partners were his (SO’s) friends.
The FIR was finally lodged on Friday, exactly 10 months and six days later, that too when SSP Ashutosh Pandey ‘requested’ the influential SO to register the case.
Narrating his woes to the HT Lucknow Live Jaiswal, a resident of 18, Sunderbagh locality, Kaiserbagh stated that he had got contract of running a country liquor shop at Bundikhera locality in Aashiana for 2002-2005. Jaiswal had a business partnership with Kamta Prasad and Ranjit Kumar.
Jaiswal said since the contract of the shop had expired in March 2005 it was closed down till the next order was acquired.
{{/usCountry}}Jaiswal said since the contract of the shop had expired in March 2005 it was closed down till the next order was acquired.
{{/usCountry}}Meanwhile, Jaiswal alleged that his partners, along with Surendra Jaiswal and Sanju Jaiswal, broke into the shop and grabbed all the belongings kept inside, including Rs 50,000 in cash. When Jaiswal asked the named persons to hand him over the goods and the cash, they allegedly issued him life threats.
Jaiswal further alleged that he went to the local police station to get his complaint registered but the SO shooed him away. He later went to SP (East) RKS Rathore and narrated about the incident.
Rathore kept asking the SO to lodge the FIR and initiate the investigation since.
But, SO Yadav categorically denied Rathore to follow the directives explaining that the accused named in the complaint were close friends of his (the SO).
Therefore, the SO replied that he would not be able to initiate any action in this connection.
On the other hand, Jaiswal was receiving threats from the accused following which he had not mustered courage to contact the senior cops. He somehow contacted the SSP recently and only then was the SO ‘requested’ to register the case.