Chennai police tortured us!

Chennai Police commissioner's enthusiasm to give security to senior citizens due to the recent spate of murders and robbery has become a torture to us.

Perhaps Chennaites might have read it in the newspapers that he has ordered that the policemen should go house to house and enumerate senior citizens staying alone and then visit their houses daily to find out that they are safe and secure.

On 18th August our local police came to our flat and took our phone number, name and also told that a book would be kept and the patrolling police would sign it every night after checking up.

Our niece has come from Bangalore and we planned to go to Pondy to see her ailing brother. On the day she came when we were having lunch we received a call from the police station and the person introduced himself as the writer of Kilpauk police station. He asked for some particulars and we told him we already gave it to the person who came to our house.

The next day when we were on the way to Pondy he called again and asked my hubby if I had a separate phone to give that number. My hubby told him that he could get me on his phone number and also told him that we were out of station and not to disturb us.

After an hour again he rang up and asked my hubby whether I was working and if so where was I working.

My hubby got wild and told him that this was irrelevant and hung up. After some time again he called and asked the same question and said that he was under pressure from his boss and he had to feed all information in computer.

My hubby told him that over the phone he would not give any information and whatever information he wanted would be given only in person after getting his identification as he did not know to whom he was talking over the phone.

Day before yesterday we returned and a police inspector came to our house and told us that the department was giving them pressure and so they were forced to collect information. We told him that the person who spoke did not know how to talk and also asked irrelevant questions. The inspector telephoned to him and told him to apologize and the matter at last came to an end.

There is a book hanging at our door and every day a constable or Inspector sign the book in day time after checking up if everything is fine.

I do appreciate the initiative taken by Chennai police to give security to senior citizens staying alone albeit it doesn't become a torture or too much disturbance.

Chennai police tortured us!