A 51-year-old resident of Chembur, allegedly verbally abused inside the premises of Chembur police station, has resorted to Right To Information (RTI) to procure the CCTV footage of the incident but was refused information at the first go. This comes two days after mid-day had highlighted the plight of Sachin Jaiswar's family after his alleged death because of police atrocity at the Dharavi police station. In both cases, cops refused to provide CCTV footage of the police station under the RTI Act citing section 8 (I) (H) (information which would impede the process of investigation or apprehension or prosecution of offenders)

It took Chembur's Salma Qureshi almost four months to procure the footage of locals verbally abusing her when she reached the station to file an FIR over a family dispute. A senior police inspector had also misbehaved with her then, she had alleged. With nowhere to go, she decided to file a case against the culprits but did not have any concrete evidence. She thus zeroed in on the RTI Act but that wasn't an easy task either.