“Cant lodge your FIR, we’ve run out of paper”

The Electronics City Police station (Bangalore) it seems has become so modern and paperless in their operation that they don’t even have paper for writing an FIR. We made this ‘paperless’ discovery when we approached the police station to record the accident of our car that was hit by a fast moving Sumo cab coming at right angles just 100 yards from the Police Station.

The cop at the station coolly heard our incident but put his hands up when we asked him to write our FIR before the cabbie driver got the benefit of doing so ahead of us. “Sorry Sar, we don’t have paper to write your FIR” he replied. Could it be because of the grand success of e-drive by the IT honchos that influenced our efficient police force?

Even a week later the FIR has not been lodged by them, our offer to provide them reams of paper from our office was also rejected. Instead the offer of Rs 1000 went down pretty well with them. And so turn the wheels within the wheels.