Mumbai: A woman had to spend over four hours in a police station trying to lodge a proper FIR after she had been hit and robbed while transiting from the international to the domestic airport soon after Sunday midnight.
Sonali Sabherwal, 24, had arrived from Goa and was going by an autorickshaw around 12.15am to catch a connecting flight to Bhopal when her bag with jewellery worth Rs 12.5 lakh and Rs 20-25,000 in cash was snatched by the pillion rider on a bike near the airport colony gate in Vile Parle.
Distraught, she made for the nearest police station, where the officer on duty asked how he could be sure that she was transiting as she claimed she was and whether she was carrying the bills for the jewellery she alleged were robbed. When she left almost four hours later, the officer had only registered a theft case of Rs 30,000.
The officer included the ornament details after senior officers at the police station intervened. On Monday evening Sonali's husband Sachin - both professionals settled in Goa - came from Goa and produced the jewellery bills before the police.
30/10/13 Vijay V Singh/Times of India
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Sonali Sabherwal, 24, had arrived from Goa and was going by an autorickshaw around 12.15am to catch a connecting flight to Bhopal when her bag with jewellery worth Rs 12.5 lakh and Rs 20-25,000 in cash was snatched by the pillion rider on a bike near the airport colony gate in Vile Parle.
Distraught, she made for the nearest police station, where the officer on duty asked how he could be sure that she was transiting as she claimed she was and whether she was carrying the bills for the jewellery she alleged were robbed. When she left almost four hours later, the officer had only registered a theft case of Rs 30,000.
The officer included the ornament details after senior officers at the police station intervened. On Monday evening Sonali's husband Sachin - both professionals settled in Goa - came from Goa and produced the jewellery bills before the police.
30/10/13 Vijay V Singh/Times of India
