The Brave Pedestrian

Led by Ramdas Kalan and Baban Tetme, the farmers who live in the villages of Lodha Palava City project area are planning agitations against Lodha Developers and Mangal Prabhat Lodha, a BJP MLA, who they allege has unjustly taken away their lands with little or no payment.

To Shri Dattatray Padsalgikar, IPS, Police Commissioner, CP Compound, Opp Crawford Market, Mumbai 19th October, 2017 Dear Sir, Happy Diwali and Saal Mubaarak. With reference to my complaint emailed to you on Sunday ( http://bit.ly/Threat-Call-Complaint ), Jt. CP Crime promptly forwarding it to DCP Zone 12 with copy to me. I met DCP Zone 12, who directed Senior Inspector of Kasturba Marg Police to take my statement. Text of my statement: http://bit.ly/Police-Statement-17Oct2017 However, Non Cognizable (NC) offense was sought to be registered by concerned police officers, to give the matter a burial without any investigation. As your website says, "No police officer can investigate a non-cognizable case (NC) unless he obtains prior permission of a Magistrate..." Sir, kindly direct Kasturba Marg Police to register FIR as cognizable offenses are made out: IPC 503. Criminal intimidation. I was threatened with bodily harm as well as harm to my property. ...

To Shri Dattatray Padsalgikar, IPS, Police Commissioner, CP Compound, Opp Crawford Market, Mumbai Dear Sir, I have received a threat call on behalf of Bhagtani builders, and also on behalf of Shiv Sena MLA Prakash Surve. At first, the caller identified himself as Karan Singh. He was calling from mobile no. 9869785767, and he said he knew that Truecaller was going to show Karan Singh. (This suggests that he was not calling from his own phone, and Karan Singh is not his genuine identity.) Threat Call at 2.45 pm on Sunday afternoon (today). At first, he said he was a person who had been cheated by Bhagtani, along with another person. He said that both of them had given Rs 20 lakhs each to Bhagtani, and wanted their money back. When told to register FIR and seek other legal remedies, this person was not interested. He was mainly interested in meeting me in person. In the middle of this conversation, he said that Bhagtani had told him on phone today that he had made arra...

Mumbai, 14 th July, 2016: I would not have believed it if I had'nt seen it with my own eyes. For many months, my client Tukaram Sutar had been insisting that the Jogeshwari Municipal Corporator Ujwala Modak was giving political support to the non-performing redevelopment builder and former managing committee members of his cooperative housing society... but I was skeptical. I asked him, "Where is the evidence? Has this corporator ever spoken or written letters to us, or interfered in our society's matters? No!" However, three days ago, when I found myself confronting Ujwala Modak at the society's hearing at the office of the Deputy Registrar of Cooperation (K-East Ward), Wadala, I realized that Mr Sutar was right. At the hearing, Ujwala Modak's conversation with Cooperation Department officials indicated that she had been meeting and phoning them for favourable orders.  After our heated argument, corporator Modak helped the society's chairman Mr...

Chapter IX: Namita’s Revenge Namita knew she was prostitute now. Worse, she knew she was a puppet in the Sub Inspector's hands. She was completely powerless, she was completely debased and she hated it. She hated Tony the pimp for his hand in it, but more than anybody else, she hated Gaitonde the policeman. This business about 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' is greatly misunderstood. One traditionally thinks of  housewives turning nasty and throwing saucepans and rolling pins. Sometimes, people think of mistresses. Rarely, if ever, does it apply to prostitutes. Also this thing about 'Behind every great man, there is a great woman'. The phrase is understood as being applicable to wives who are extremely tolerant and supportive. It's rarely about the noble and selfless deeds of a prostitute. In the case of Gaitonde, however, this second phrase was perfectly applicable. One year was too short a period for out-of-turn promotions to materialize in...