Time to act!

Time to be a here Mr Maria....

Yesterday, a bunch of women knocked my door and asked my wife’s cell number. They are going to arrange “Morcha” due to the shortage of water. The place where I live in Vasai-Virar is facing lots of problem due to water shortage. My aunt is getting water supply at every four days. While water in our society us supplied on an alternate day. I told them that I live alone in the flat and there is no woman in my home. Usually cooperative societies do not allow single man to live in their apartments. They have objected so many times in meetings and once they also quarreled with owner who has rented me his sister’s flat. But all is good as his sister is married to a Mumbai cop and he attends meeting regularly. He has taken all my responsibility too. The reason why I have been able to establish myself in Mumbai, it’s because of a Mumbai cop who has supported me a lot. Couple lives in Andheri Police lane attached to Andheri Station. So till now, I am so thankful to a Mumbai Police who put immense trust on me and made me able to stand here. But somewhere, something is going wrong with Mumbai Police…

I thought many things would be changed after a local ‘Bandra Boy’ Rakesh Maria became the top cop of Mumbai Police. He made “Zero Tolerance” policy in sensitive cases for the crimes against women. But today, it seems his students are walking on a wrong path even after the principal has set restrictions in his institution. A year ago, the famous director of Bollywood Rohit Shetty dedicated a movie to Mumbai cops starring Ajay Devgn & Kareena Kapoor that showed how few Mumbai Police protect their citizens working for day & night. But has it been ended on a silver screen only? This is a big question. Mr Maria had assured all women of the city by setting “Zero Tolerance Policy” that the police will be quite friendly to them. But, have they been so much ‘friendly” that now they have got rights to rape woman in custody? Recently a model has been raped by three policemen. There was also a female cop present when she was taken into custody. Policemen took bribe too & model sent direct SMS to the city police commissioner Mr Maria. If this was horrible, another incident is even more horrible. You know how 5 year old girl raped couple of days ago and both Antop Hill & Wadala police quarreled to register case over jurisdiction issue. The girl kept lying in a bleeding condition entire night and doctor treated her only in the early morning at 6 AM. What if something would have happened to a little girl? It was luck of Mumbai police & Mr Maria that nothing happened to the little girl. The recent report has revealed that girl is now physically fit but she is in a mental shock. Doctors are arranging a psychiatrist for her to bring back her from a shock. Both inspectors are suspended.

But the biggest question is now for Mr Maria, how to control this situation? If the Mumbai Police fails to do so as promised by Mr Maria, surely he won’t be able to win trust of Mumbaikars. And so the golden times starts when he has to act instead of speeches. We know how Sunil Paraskar was involved raping a model few months ago that was highlighted in newspaper front pages, later one of a Marine Lines cop was caught with over 100 Kgs of Mephedrone  (Meon Meon) kept in his Satara home & his locker at Marine Drive Police station. No wonder but his police team also held Baby Patankar, master mind behind this scandal from Panvel while she was coming Mumbai in a luxury bus. Moreover when a singer Ankit Tiwari (accused of rape) performed in the show which was organized for Mumbai Police in presence of Mr Maria, second day Mr Maria immediately apologized.  So necessary actions are taken but somewhere Mr Maria should think about the common people like you & me. If we find ourselves in trouble sometimes and we want to seek some police help, we should be given proper attention instead of panic through which a father of a five year old girl suffered whole night, kept asking cops to take his bleeding daughter to hospital.  In a plush hotel based in Grant Road, where my friend works as an accountant, a woman from Ahmedabad was molested in late night by two Pune cops who were on official visit of the city. On the same time Mr Fadnavis took this matter personally and forced the police took necessary action against both inspectors. But the similar interest should be taken even in the case of a common man. It’s time to work on this for Mr Maria who has got such big opportunity to serve this city and he must have to try something different to make the image of his team ‘cleaned’ and ‘friendly’.