Dubai NRI's phone stolen in Mumbai, may take 10 years to recover in court

• The Indian judicial system has shown itself as being utterly inefficient. India is a country where thanks to British colonial laws and the far older and more restrictive Hindu religious laws, the state has immense authority. There is practically no way that people in power can be held accountable.

  Look a simple case of Day time robbery: NRI from Dubai, Neeta Hemant Pandav, 40, at her Mumbai apartment says, her mobile phone worth Rs 20,000 was taken in front of her by neighbor's 12 years old daughter along with her mother..... FIR was registered, police arrested neighbor and later released on bail of Rs 5000... Now NRI have to go to the court... for many times and may take next 10 years. ... Dada Babbar Singh

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NRI robbed by neighbour

Mumbai, February 28, 2007
Express News Service
Express India
Megha Sood

Neeta Hemant Pandav (40), staying in Dubai since the past 35 years had come to the city for her daughter and was staying alone in her Kandivali apartment and her neighbour, who were the only people, she trusted allegedly robbed her expensive mobile phone that she had got from Dubai. Even after registering a police complaint she was unable to recover the mobile.

According to Neeta, she came down to Mumbai to be with her eldest daughter, who is giving her HSC exams. A few days ago her next-door neighbours - the Voras entered her house and in the pretext of being nice to her allegedly robbed her mobile phone worth Rs 20,000. "It is said that the neighbours are the people you can trust with a blind eye because they are the people you can easily approach but my neighbours have betrayed my trust. I am not fighting for just a phone but for truth," said Pandav, whose husband works as an accountant in a private firm in Dubai.

Pandav has claimed in the FIR that on February 8 when her neighbour Pooja Vora came to her house in the pretext of a casual visit her 12-year-old daughter picked up Pandav’s mobile phone and went away. "I did not stop them because I thought she is taking it to see it but later when I went to ask her she completely denied that her daughter had taken my phone."

"When I enquired about the Voras I found out that there were two other complaints against them in the Kandivali police station. They had duped several people to the tune of lakhs," added Pandav.

"We had arrested Vora for robbery under section 406 of the IPC but she was later released on bail of Rs 5000. When ever we questioned her or her daughter she denied of robbing the mobile phone. We are investigating the case and trying to recover the phone," said PI S Bodke, from Kandivali police station.

When contacted the Voras were unavailable for comment

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