2 Mumbai police stations measure crime scene with tape to register FIR

Updated On: 23 April, 2016 07:57 AM IST | | Rohit Parikh

After a robbery in Ghatkopar, two local police stations -- Tilak Nagar and Pant Nagar -- bickered for 27 hours over jurisdiction, until a BMC officer was called in to measure the crime scene with a tape

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2 Mumbai police stations measure crime scene with tape to register FIR

This is a story that serves as a measure of just how unwilling the police can be to take responsibility and register FIRs. A hawker who was robbed by a gang of men on Vikhroli bridge on Wednesday evening, spent the next 27 hours running between two local police stations trying to get an FIR registered, while the cops from each station bickered over whose jurisdiction it was. It ultimately took a measuring tape and a BMC official to decide the matter, after which the man’s complaint was filed.

Handbag seller Yogesh Goswami was tricked into an auto and then thrashed and looted by a gang of men