The complaint to Police Commissioner

I was advised by a few citizen activists that i should file a complaint with the Police Commissioner. I heeded their advise and did so. I gave a written complaint, detailing out the events of the 3 days. The complaint was given to the Police Commissioner of Bangalore Police somehere around 6-March-2006 by the citizen activist Mr. Govardhan of Swabhimana. A few days later, a police man from the Audugodi Traffice police station came to my house. The inspector of the police station requested my presence regarding the complaint I had filed.

I went to meet the inspector along with Mr. Govardhan. Here all the inspector asked was if anybody had asked me for a bribe. The answer is no, and I said so. According to the inspector that was the only form of harrassment that was possible. In his books, filing false complaints, not recording statements does not fall into the category of harrassment. We tried in vain to tell him that refusing to accept a statement is a form of harrassment when the police are supposed to be impartial and agnostic in their approach.

After this meeting nothing much happened. Mr. Govardhan did try to followup, but of no use. I figured that, this was going to be my battle and mine alone. I need to fight this and take it to the logical conclusion myself.