It refers to outdated legal-provision whereby the person having helped police in getting hold of a phone-snatcher has to deprive with his mobile-phone to be kept in police-custody after a failed attempt of mobile-phone having been snatched. Mobile-phones in general have valuable data which has now-a-days in fast changing life-style have rather become lifeline of mobile-users. It is even more strange that police does not allow to withdraw the complaint so that the victim may not have to compulsorily deposit his mobile-phone in police-custody till court-orders.
Such outdated legal-provisions are in fact root cause of dutiful people avoiding filing police-complaints not only in their own interest but also in in larger interest of society where no person may exhibit boldness in getting a phone-snatcher arrested in fear of being deprived of his mobile-phone through cumbersome procedure of getting it back after several days that too on spending days in court and police-station. Provision must be changed whereby the investigating-officer may have to compulsorily return mobile-phone just on lodging police-complaint after noting down essential details of mobile-phone of the victim.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL