Directions on free registration of cases by the IGP notwithstanding, the Chandigarh Police continues to mislead complainants to avoid registering cases in cognizable offences, apparently to keep the crime rate low.
The police refused to register a case on a complaint by an eye surgeon for one reason or the other regarding the theft of his bag containing medical equipment over Rs 80,000 by two cheats.
The tricksters, both minor boys, distracted the complainant's driver by knocking at his car window and when he came out, one of them reportedly decamped with the bag.
The modus operandi is peculiar to a gang of children who were active in the city a year ago. The gang was never busted. Dr Jawahar Luthra who works with Chandigarh Medical Centre, Sector 17, at 10.30 am yesterday went to the Advance Eye Centre at the PGI. His driver dropped him outside the building and went to park the vehicle. As the driver was locking the car, a boy aged 10 knocked at the car window . He stopped the boy from doing so, but the latter refused to budge.
At this the driver came out to shoo away the boy.The boy fled and the driver returned only to find the bag in the car missing. The bag contained expensive medical equipment, including a retinoscope, worth over Rs 80,000.
Dr Luthra went to the PGI police post to lodge a complaint where the officer on duty told him that they would register a case only on being told them who the miscreants were. The policeman recorded a daily diary report (DDR). He told him that the DDR could be converted into an FIR later.
When asked, the SHO of the Sector 11 police station, Inspector Ramesh Chand Sharma, said he was not aware of the matter. In October last, a purse of Manju Wadwalker, PRO at the PGI, was stolen from her car in Sector 15. The police then too had lodged a DDR, not a case.
Sources said a member of the gang was caught in 2006 red-handed. He hailed from Orissa. The police arrested the gang members but they were released after six months.
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