It was 12 a.m. @ my engineering college hostel, Indore, sometime way back in 2002 when I was in second year of engineering. I experienced one of the most bizarre things that one can think about. Yes, I think you got it right from the topic title! Our hostel was flooded by about 25-30 Delhi police officers and an equal number of MP policemen who had come there for an encounter of a notorious gangster who had taken shelter in our hostel.
Ashish, Vinay and I were in our room (No. 11 to be precise). If I recollect it right, we were watching a movie, when somebody knocked our door very sturdily. Readers – please don’t think that the gangster was in our room (heheheh). We opened to door and found a fat police constable forcing him inside our room. We stood lightening stuck! We never expected a policeman at our door that too in the middle of the night. All three of us looked at each other guessing who was the one amongst us who did something miserably wrong (hahaha…I can’t stop laughing)! Thankfully the policeman didn’t say a word. He just came inside and checked our room and asked us to remain inside. He went out and locked our door from outside. All this while, we had no idea that the same was being done to all the rooms in the hostel. Students were instructed to not to come out in the corridor as the entire hostel had become a shooting ground within couple of minutes. Some of them who had their rooms facing the hostel front side were lucky as they actually saw the way police entered the hostel in groups of 2 officers at a time with loaded guns moving ahead using hand signals. We could not experience that as our room was at the back side.
Post all the rooms were locked up, the three of us were eagerly waiting for some gunshots, which fortunately for the criminals, didn’t happen as they had already vacated the place. It was at 1a.m. after all this drama got over when our rooms were finally unlatched and we were permitted to come out. And it was then when we learnt from some senior officers what had actually happened. There was this gangster who had come from Agra (or Delhi.. I don’t recollect) to Indore on some kind of assignment. The police got his whereabouts from their reliable sources and thus they had planned this encounter.
This was certainly a good topic for all of us in the hostel to discuss the whole night.…not sure if the cops could make it to the convict later!!
Ashish, Vinay and I were in our room (No. 11 to be precise). If I recollect it right, we were watching a movie, when somebody knocked our door very sturdily. Readers – please don’t think that the gangster was in our room (heheheh). We opened to door and found a fat police constable forcing him inside our room. We stood lightening stuck! We never expected a policeman at our door that too in the middle of the night. All three of us looked at each other guessing who was the one amongst us who did something miserably wrong (hahaha…I can’t stop laughing)! Thankfully the policeman didn’t say a word. He just came inside and checked our room and asked us to remain inside. He went out and locked our door from outside. All this while, we had no idea that the same was being done to all the rooms in the hostel. Students were instructed to not to come out in the corridor as the entire hostel had become a shooting ground within couple of minutes. Some of them who had their rooms facing the hostel front side were lucky as they actually saw the way police entered the hostel in groups of 2 officers at a time with loaded guns moving ahead using hand signals. We could not experience that as our room was at the back side.
Post all the rooms were locked up, the three of us were eagerly waiting for some gunshots, which fortunately for the criminals, didn’t happen as they had already vacated the place. It was at 1a.m. after all this drama got over when our rooms were finally unlatched and we were permitted to come out. And it was then when we learnt from some senior officers what had actually happened. There was this gangster who had come from Agra (or Delhi.. I don’t recollect) to Indore on some kind of assignment. The police got his whereabouts from their reliable sources and thus they had planned this encounter.
This was certainly a good topic for all of us in the hostel to discuss the whole night.…not sure if the cops could make it to the convict later!!
1 comment:
great man!!!!I would have gone nuts if I were in your place in your hostel.Bravo u three Ashish, Vinay and you.Thanks to chor n police!!
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