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What makes a 56 year old guy take his 66 year old wheelchair bound special needs sister along with him to a police station at 2 am on a winter night?
This is what I precisely did on Wednesday 26fh December 2018.
The harassment and mental torture caused to me and my sister Rukaiya who is multichallenged special needs senior citizen is immense due to the falsity, duplicity and malafide intent of one Mr.Imran Shaikh.
On 17th November 2018 I took my CQ40 hp laptop to one Mr Imran Shaikh running a small repair shop from a cubby hole in #AtlanticHouse on #LamingtonRoad #Mumbai.
(He had earlier put a new keyboard and done other work on my laptop some months ago)
As soon as he connected the laptop his first words were it's not starting. As the laptop came on and windows loaded I told him - It's on and it's working. It works only when the adaptor is connected. The battery does not charge But I work on it for a couple of hours, I told him. He did not seem very happy about it
Just then Microsoft flashed a message suggesting changing the battery. He immediately said change the battery. I asked him where nearby would the battery be available. Any shop - he said. I also told him the DVD drive was not working fully. Only MP3 format could be played. He said repairing costs of the DVD drive would be heavy and suggested I buy a new one.
I went to #MAXITWorld, a shop a few metres away The new battery and the unboxed #Lenovo external drive were bought under the supervision of my repairman Mr Imran Shaikh.
However when the MAX IT shop people put the laptop on with the new battery in it, it still showed the same message, since the new battery also wouldn't charge. But Windows opened and the laptop was working.
The new battery purchase was cancelled. However I did buy the Lenovo external DVD drive.
I went back to Imran Shaikh. I was happy for the new acquisition the Lenovo external CD drive. But seemingly, Imran was not. He was his same morose self, as I asked him to suggest what I should do now. He told me you should ask the person from whom you had purchased the battery more than a year ago.
Since it was quite late and sister Rukaiya was getting restless, we came home. I put on the laptop and connected the new external Lenovo DVD drive. I was worried about the drivers, but Windows automatically installed them. I tested a film DVD and it worked fine.
"Imran had seen the laptop working fine; the battery was not charging.
**So also the MAX IT World shop owners/employees had seen the laptop working
***I had bought a unboxed external DVD drive for the laptop.
These things need to be kept in mind for the events that took place the next day and for the next almost six weeks thereafter.
THE NEXT DAY - 18th November 2018
As suggested by Imran -the repairman, the next day 18th November 2018, sister in tow, I went to look for the person I had bought the laptop battery from, several months ago. I only knew he was on the first floor of a building opposite the #DBMargLamington RoadPolice Stn.and that he also repaired laptops.
I kept on asking shopkeepers on the ground floor if there was any laptop repairing being done on the first floor of each building in that row. I must have climbed and searched 3-4 buildings, but did not find him. I was a little disappointed. What should I do next?
I remembered once earlier there had been a problem with my power cord and my friend #Vinayak who has a shop on the road outside #AlanticHouse, had suggested I should change it. So I asked one of the road stall owners Mr. #Subhash for it. We fixed the new power cord to the adaptor, but still the result was the same. The laptop started, but the battery would not charge and the same system message flashed suggesting replacement of the battery. Despite this I bought the new power cord paying Rs 100/- for it to #Subhash
I crossed the road to Vinayak, my friend and stall owner outside Atlantic House and told him about it. He told me you can ask Imran if he can repair it, but he won't do it immediately. You'd have to leave the laptop with him.
I went in to Imran's repair shop and asked him if he could resolve the laptop battery non-charging issue. He said he would try, as he took the laptop, but most importantly refused the new power cord and adaptor which I offered to him. He took my short signature on two or three places on the laptop including the keyboard. He asked me to call and enquire about the status of the laptop.
* The laptop was working when I bought and tested the new power cord from Subhash.
**I crossed the road and minutes later I handed over the laptop to Imran.
*** Imran the repairman, refused the power cord and adaptor I offered to him alongwith the laptop.
These points need to be kept in mind to understand fully and correctly the traumatic, stressful and tortuous events that followed thereafter.
THEREAFTER
Then followed evasiveness, false accusations, spreading lies causing immense stress and mental torture and harassment and physical hardship to me and my wheel chair bound 66 year old handicapped sister, who needs supervision and escorting 24x7.
I called and went to Imran shop (which incidentally is rented out to Imran by my friend Vinayak) several times over the next four weeks or so. Most of the times taxis would refuse us and I had to with great difficulty push Rukaiya's broken wheel chair safely from home - Haji Ali Government colony to Lamington Road passing through the rough, dugup road ( #MumbaiMetro excavations ) after turning right from Navjivan Society.
{I may add that the #OrevaEbike on which I used to transport Rukaiya, a scooter converted to a handicapped vehicle, has been lying standstill for want of new batteries which cost about ₹13,000, since the past eighteen months or so.}
At first Imran would say he hadn't taken up the work of the laptop in hand yet, then saying that the laptop was not starting and then further suggesting and making veiled accusations that I had shown the laptop to some other repairer after my first visit to him on 17th November 2018. An utterly baseless and false accusation which he has been spreading around.
Sometimes Rukaiya in her wheelchair would be waiting a long time on the footpath of Atlantic House building entrance and the shopkeepers there would complain that she stops passers-by and we have to keep answering them. I told them she cannot be left alone at home, to which one shopkeeper even said - Put up a board on her wheelchair saying "Please Ignore"
The harassment, mental torture and physical hardship reached a break point about 17 days ago. I was at Imran's shop and hewas attending another customer and being evasive once again. I came out and found my steps heading towards #DBMargPoliceStation. I did not want to lodge a complaint so without taking any names I explained the whole problem to the police inspectors on-duty asking them for suggestions on what I should do, after I had finished my story. The police were symp athetic and said it's your word against his word. How can one say who is speaking the truth? But then the police official softened his tone and told me - instead of asking us, you ask him (Imran) what he suggests.
So I went to Imran and accordingly asked him. Imran said he would repair the laptop and restore it as it was I.e. have it working (without attending the battery non-charging issue) after three days, on Monday i.e.10th December 2018. But he once again started being evasive when I called him saying there is a problem with this and that. I then told him I don't understand what you are saying, I just know that you had agreed to give the laptop back as it was on Monday. Whereupon he again evaded answering by saying he was doing work and would call me. But Imran's call never came. I tried many times to go to his shop but my sister Rukaiya's special needs and demands prevented me.
Night of 25th / 26th December
Rukaiya keeps irregular hours, keeps awake most of the night and asks me to take her out late in the night. And she did just that even on 25th December night. We were at Haji Ali and on an impulse I decided to go to #DBMargPoliceStation. I explained my situation and the details of my "Laptop Case". The lady Senior police inspector incharge listened patiently and suggested that I go to the #ConsumerCourt.
Christmas Day was over and it was 2.00 am Wednesday, 26th December 2018
Just then a very Senior Police Officer arrived and started inspecting the police log book. He also asked the lady Senior inspector what was our issue when he saw us standing outside
We were called inside and the details were noted down. No complaint was filed. I also stated that illegal/unauthorised access was repeatedly done in our house (I have complained to #TardeoPoliceStation and there was evidence that the desktop computer and laptop were tampered with and accessed and even a fake Facebook account of my sister Rukaiya was created from this laptop. The lady Sr.Police Inspector incharge, advised us to put our complaint in writing.
The above account/post maybe treated as an FIR and accordingly taken cognisance of and acted upon #SeniorInspectorInCharge #DBMargPoliceStation
My sister is a #Woman, a #SeniorCitizen and individual aged 66 years #PersonWithDisabilities. Alongwith me she has had to suffer great hardship due to the actions/inaction of #ImranShaikh and other persons like him.
Last but not the least why would someone want to break into our house? No valuables. It is one more question that needs answering.
#CommissionerOfPoliceMumbaiPolice
#AnilDevli #NitinTakane
#SanjuktaSharma
#DhananjayTalgeri
#MelchiadesDias
#YvonneNelson
#SeemaBabarKhan
#GPandrangRow
#RoyWadia
#DevikaIrani
#AranaKausar
#ShamunVirpurwala
#RafikaGandhi
#DrShabbirVirpurwala
SOS !!!
Rukaiya cannot be left alone. If left alone she tries to move about without support and ends up injuring herself grievously. So help is needed on this immediately.
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