Following mid-day's December 29 report, the Sangamner police kicked into action and traced the vehicle that killed Sakinaka resident Meen Bahadur Singh's brother and sister-in-law Pratap and Nirmala Singh. The action came after state Director General of Police D D Padsalgikar took cognisance of mid-day's report and asked senior officers to look into the matter as a priority.

Surprisingly, the cops didn't have to look far for the car either: it was a mere two kms from their police station. On December 29, in the front-page report, 'Man probes hit-and-run that killed his brother, sis-in-law for lazy cops,' mid-day reported about Meen's quest to seek justice for his deceased family members by launching his own investigation into the December 2 hit-and-run incident because lazy cops in Sangamner weren't moving beyond the bare minimum. Meen had even identified the make of the car -­ a Tata Hexa - involved in the incident through a broken rear-view mirror.