Janhavi Desai

Hello @BlrCityPolice, is the registration of FIRs at the South Zone Women's Police Station temporarily suspended due to protests at Freedom Park? We've been trying to get an FIR registered at this police station since the past few days and have been told this. Kindly confirm.

We got the FIR for this case done today, thanks to @BlrCityPolice However, @letsblinkit has not offered ANY support to the victim who literally requires SURGERY now for the injuries caused due to the brutal assault by their delivery person. @albinder @deepigoyal what is this?

Hello @BlrCityPolice There's a case of a woman at Sampigehalli Police Station. She has been harassed by an individual from a different state who has given her extreme death, arson, and rape threats over WhatsApp. He has also sent her many extremely graphic and vile sexually harassing messages, all of which are on record. She filed an FIR 10+ days ago at Sampigehalli PS. This FIR, instead of helping her, has tragically ended up increasing her own problems. The criminal is still harassing her and her friends, and she's facing constant "procedural" problems from the authorities because she took the step of filing the FIR and standing up for herself legally. Even though it was a digital crime that happened ENTIRELY over WhatsApp, the police officers insisted on coming to her house to do the Spot Mahazar (Verification) when there was no crime that had taken place at her house. It was completely online. The "spot" of the crime was not her house. She, being a major (25), didn't want to have the police coming to her house to avoid involving her parents and family in this, but the police insisted to come over to her house and to speak with her parents anyway. She finally gave in because she felt like she didn't have an option. And now the family is needlessly involved and stressed over this case too. WHY was involving her parents in this necessary? They had no involvement in the case at all. This was COMPLETELY avoidable. But her misery doesn't end there, the officers are now insisting on seizing her own phone as evidence even though the crime has happened entirely over WhatsApp, the incriminating messages are still on WhatsApp's own servers, and everything can be independently verified with Meta. She has put all the evidence on a pen drive and is willing to submit it under the Evidence Act, she is further willing to take her phone to the police station and get the messages verified in-person, even with a video being recorded of the same by the police. She only has one phone for all her studies, work, and communication. She is currently looking for a job and cannot afford to not have a phone. If that one phone is seized indefinitely for a purpose that can be easily avoided, why are we troubling her? Why not seize the criminal's phone instead? It contains the same exact chats and voice messages. The criminal, who is still at large, has had seemingly no action taken on him as he is STILL finding ways to harass her and has shown no signs of backing down despite 10+ days of the FIR being done. Shouldn't the legal system work to make lives easier for victims instead of making them jump through unnecessary hoops just for the investigating authorities to proceed with their work? I understand the importance of spot verification, evidence seizure, witness statements, and court statements. But if there are viable alternatives that don't trouble the victim, shouldn't we prioritize them? This is the biggest reason why so many victims, in my experience, don't want to come forward to register their cases with the police because they are afraid of exactly these kinds of outcomes. Without cases, the criminals continue to get away with vile and heinous crimes, and innocents suffer in forced silence. I request you to kindly intervene and do something about this. She is extremely depressed, frustrated and regrets ever bringing this issue to Bengaluru City Police in the first place. Let's please change that. @DCPNEBCP @CPBlr @DgpKarnataka