A murder case cannot be registered as the motive
She has decided to live for a “sacred mission”-— to bring to book her son’s killer. It did not take long for Kismat Maurya (39) to figure out that a long and arduous battle lay before her when she first visited the Ayodhya Nagar police station on November 9, 2015, days after the last rites of her son Aditya Maurya (19) had been performed.Aditya, an engineering student, died on October 22 last year, after being hit by a car while he was taking a stroll on the sidewalk with one of his friends at around 11 pm.While the police dismissed it as death in a road accident, without pursuing the case for any headway, Ms Maurya took it upon herself to gather evidence against the unknown accused who had hit her son and then fled away from the scene.“I had made a few phone calls to Ayodhya Nagar police station and realised that the probe was going nowhere. I set out for Bhopal on November 9 and went straight to the accident site. I walked up and down the road at least 30 times. My instinct told me there must have been eye witnesses as there was a petrol pump and a Durga Puja pandal close to the spot. I also spotted three CCTV cameras at the nearby square,” she told this newspaper narrating how she went about collecting evidence, which, she alleged, the police never did.When she approached the police station for the CCTV footage.
Ms Maurya was told that images captured from October 22 to November 9 had been deleted. “I felt the ground beneath me was slipping. I am an MSc in computer science. I know that nothing is ever deleted beyond recovery. I ensured that it was retrieved,” Ms Maurya said.A week later, she again approached the police station to learn that the video footage she had submitted had gone missing. “I was deeply upset. How can the clippings disappear from the police control room I again got the footage retrieved and this time I made sure to keep a back-up.”When the police told her that they were unable to identify the car from the footage, Ms Maurya retrieved a grainy image of the registration number of a car believed to be the one involved in the accident. She novel wind power inverter not only tracked down the car in the neighbouring town of Raisen but also traced its owner. The vehicle had a dent in the bumper, which had been covered by stickers.The vehicle owner, a local advocate, argued that the damage was done after the car hit a pole.
Forensic tests later confirmed that the car had hit either a human body or cattle.Ms Maurya had to also struggle to disprove the vehicle owner’s claim that he and his son were not in Bhopal when the incident took place. He had produced photographs to show that he was with a politician at the time of the accident.“I got the pictures analysed and found that the photographs were taken at another time,” Ms Maurya said. The car owner then produced a middle-aged man, who admitted before the police that he was the one driving the vehicle. But Ms Maurya produced CCTV footage to contest the assertion, showing someone “young and slim” to be in the driver’s seat.Ms Maurya also produced a 14-second animated video that she had developed to recreate the crime scene. But police was still waiting for “concrete evidence” to convert the case from an accident to that of a murder.
Ms Maurya went back to the accident site, visited an eatery located nearby, and returned with five witnesses, one of whom later testified before a magistrate.While her efforts have produced little progress in the investigation, they did result in transfer of two police officials and also of the case to another police station for a “fair probe”.The police, meanwhile, has said the case “lacks motive”. “A murder case cannot be registered as the motive is not established,” local superintendent of police Anshuman Singh said.Having done her own investigation so far in the case, Ms Maurya now wants to interrogate the accused herself.“Police simply did nothing. The probe has progressed only because I toiled to gather evidence. Let the police give me the power to interrogate the people linked to the case and I will produce evidence to establish the motive,” said the mother who also accessed her son’s Facebook account to find possible conspiracy angle.She last met Madhya Pradesh’s director general of police R. Shukla on September 20 seeking justice. “I will fight it to the finish, even if it غير مجاز مي باشدts me my life,” a frail looking, but determined, Ms Maurya said.
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