HANDCUFF FOUND LYING DESERTED: COPS CLUELESS ABOUT THE MISSING HANDCUFF

A handcuff was found lying deserted in the vicinity of the Mahagaon MSRTC Bus Station on Friday by one alert ‘bhel’ vendor Ramlal operating on the platform. He set his hand on the deserted handcuff and handed over it later to the canteen proprietor Raju Narayan Wakode who passed a tele-message to one of his familiar cops attached to the Mahagaon Police Station. But the cop paid no heed to his message forcing Raju to alert another cop. But he too turned a blind eye at the message. A much baffled Raju has then decided to take the handcuff bearing No.161 to Yavatmal and started on his bike.

The Mahagaon police have got the tip off about Raju heading towards Yavatmal to surrender the handcuff and contacted him on his mobile but they could not establish contact till Raju reached Yavatmal.

When they could contact Raju, the power drunk police started dictating him to bring the handcuff to the police station and surrender it to them in their routine style of dealing with a history sheeter.

Much puzzled Raju has then returned to Mahagaon and on reaching there, surrendered the handcuff to the police station of Mahagaon. Raju has thus relieved from the unwanted burden of the handcuff. However, they could not identify the handcuff despite it bears a distinctive number so far.

When contacted, the Mahagaon Police Station Officer Baijnath Latpatte has confirmed of having received the handcuff from Raju and said that there is no missing handcuff from his police station.

“We have sent wireless message to all the police stations and instructed them to verify the stock to ascertain the source of the deserted handcuff,” Latpatte said.

It is pertinent to note that the prisoners are to be taken to the courts from the jail for presenting them before the courts and the prisoners are being handcuffed on their transit. Those who are granted bail by the court are released from the custody and the handcuffs would be taken back to the jail by the cops escorting the prisoners.

The handcuff found in the vicinity of the bus station might be one such handcuff, it is opined. But nobody is ready to accept the responsibility of the custody of the handcuff. Even the District Headquarter sources said that they have no such missing handcuff as per the stock register.

Now the billion dollar question is: The handcuff is of which police station or the jail? And who was the cop guilty of throwing away the handcuff? Or if the handcuff is thrown away by a prisoner managed to skip during his transit from the escort cops custody and is at large now?