Filing an FIR is not tough for the common man alone; the road is equally uphill if you're a retired police officer. Just ask Gani Mujavar, 66, a retired inspector, who had to run from pillar to post to get an FIR registered against a builder who cheated him over a Rs 5 lakh flat he bought 14 years ago. Mujavar had been trying to get the case filed since 2015, but the breakthrough only came in last week, after endless harassment.

Mujavar retired from the police force as a police inspector in 2010, and was last posted with Shivajinagar police station in the city. He bought the 680 sq ft flat in 2004 from a local builder, who was redeveloping a slum in Buddha Nagar, Kurla, at a cost of Rs 5 lakh. That year, Mujavar was posted at the Kurla police station as an assistant police inspector.