Indian police at their best

No, I am not talking about the Jessica Lal case or even the Salman Khan case. I am talking about our recent interaction with Indian police.

As our office bus was passing through a congested area, it banged into a car.

The bang woke up a few of the sleeping passengers including the conductor. And his first reaction was same as ours, of surprise. Although his job was to look at the rear side of the bus; he was found most of the time looking but with closed eyes. The victim of the accident was a taxi. The driver came rushing out of his taxi screaming abuses to the driver.

The morning show (post-accident drama) had already started, a large group of people came over at the road side PVR.

There can be various kind of persons found in such a crowd, some of which were noticeable to me:
* Curious kind : these are just curious to know the extent of damage
* Victim: of course the victims of the accident
* "nothing else to do" kind
* lets have morning exercise kind : these are ready to beat up anyone. Just a start is required or a shout "maaro maaro", which is just what I was trying to do.
* lets have fun : many of us including me and my colleagues.

So except fist fight everything else was going.

Soon the taxi driver's companions came up from somewhere. I think he called them up on mobile. All of them in blue jerseys were ready for a brawl. Our side also grew strong with all of us getting out of the bus. A third party materialized much fierce and much stronger than either of us. They were the local jats!!!!

At last the fourth party reached the scene "Indian police", laughing all the way....they shouted at some, showed their rusty guns to some and after some peace and order restored began "investigating".

The taxi-man was demanding a hefty 3000 bucks for just a rear view mirror. the driver was asking for some time so that his contractor could come and settle the matter. The police was getting restless to get their hands warm.

So it was decided that a policeman will accompany us on the bus to our office, where we will be dropped as we were getting late, and matters will be resolved with the contractor.

The taxi men followed us in 4 taxis for the next 20 kms.

After all the debates and damage analysis, the police decided that the bus contractor pay Rs. 400 to the taxi driver and 200 to them (their reward for solving the case so quickly).

So, three cheers for Indian police. They made their morning wages. The taxi drivers returned in anger as they had already spent more petrol than Rs. 400 could buy, leave aside the damage. The driver was relieved. The conductor got a good verbal bashing for sleeping off while on duty.

And I went on for the office quiet happy and amused by the event. Obviuosly, some amusement was because I reached office late with a valid reason and a long story to narrate.