We’ve seen several films where con artists skillfully dupe the cops and escape with the loot in style. Throughout these films, we’re rooting for the thieves, hysterically laughing every time they managed to confound the cops. However, we’ve always got that one guy in the group who’s way too grounded in reality. After every smooth escape, he has to make a remark, “Aisa, thodi hota hai.”
Well, show them this.
In the early hours of the 17th of March, a thief in Mumbai, only minutes after looting a shop in Mahim, came face to face with patrolling cops. Keeping calm, he politely asked the cops for directions to Dadar station.
In fact, he actively hailed the cops who were driving past to ask for directions. Could he BE any more smug?
The cops, without noticing his loot or even the fact that a strange man was out and about at 3:58 in the morning, simply obliged.
The thief, who is seen turning back to watch the cops drive past, stuck around for about half an hour longer, simply basking in his own brilliance. Later, he casually got into a taxi and went on his way.
The victim of the robbery, shopkeeper Raees Ansari, lodged an FIR about the incident on the morning of March 17th.
“The thief broke into my shop around 3.30 am and came out around 4 am, leaving with Rs 48,000 in cash, along with goods worth over Rs 10,000.”
The cops only got the CCTV footage on the 19th of March, after which they realised the massive blunder the cops on duty had committed that day.
“I have been running my shop here for more than 20 years, and most of the time, the police stops anyone seen loitering so late at night, so I am amazed that the thief was not stopped by the cops. He hung around for 30 minutes at the Mahim Dargah junction, where there is 24X7 police bandobast. He would have been arrested if the police had been alert.”
Raees Ansari added, reacting to the CCTV footage.
Milind Idekar, senior inspector from Mahim police station, called it a lapse.
“It was a lapse by our patrol officers if they did not stop the thief when they found him there so late at night.”
He has vowed to take strict action against the cops on duty that night.
It’s quite shocking that while ‘anti-Romeo squads’ are on high alert for the slightest hint of affection between a man and a woman, our cops are having such “lapses” and failing to make REAL crime pay. What has our society come to?
News Source: Mid-Day