Naka cops avoid lodging loot FIR

LUCKNOW: The Naka police evaded registering the complaint of a woman who was looted while returning home on a rickshaw late on Tuesday night.

The incident took place around 11.30 pm near State Bank of India (SBI) in Ganeshganj when Maya Arya, wife of Mukesh Prasad, was heading home from Charbagh railway station. Her brother-inlaw Umesh Arya, was also on the same rickshaw. Three persons on a motorcycle snatched her purse containing cash and some documents in the front of Santa Inn hotel on Latouche Road. The woman’s husband does dairy work while she herself is a housewife.

Maya Arya said one of three motorcycle riders pounced on her from the back and snatched her purse. She said, “I was alert and even spotted the youth before he snatched the purse but he pulled me back when tried I to resist him. The youth managed to snatch the bag while I lost my balance. The youths disappeared within seconds on a motorcycle after snatching the purse”. She said the purse contained R9,000 cash and some documents.

She said she immediately approached the Naka police station and informed about the incident. In-charge of Naka police station Vijay Prakash first suspected that she had come to register a false case. He then sent a police jeep to examine the spot after repetitive requests but this was of no use, she said.

“The police team visited the spot and dropped me near my house, saying that the incident appeared to fall in Qaiserbagh police jurisdiction. When asked to register the complaint, the cops told me to consult station in-charge but the FIR was not registered”.

When contacted, district police spokesman Alok Pathak said no such complaint had been registered with the Naka police.