8th February 2011
7:00 PM. The election process for the post of the coordinator of the Koshish club started.
9:00 PM. The result was out. I along with Jasmeet Kaur Grover and Amit Gupta was elected as the coordinator of Koshish Club.
9:20 PM. All the formalities and congratulation stuff happened. According to the established tradition of the college, we headed to Sitaram Bhartia to give a party to IMF, . Our group included Alageshan Muduliar and Dayanand from the senior batch.
10:00 PM. Formal meeting with IMF in room 201 took place. Alum Coordinator Mr.Anil Kolla was missing.
10:45 PM. We (IMF -barring Anil, Alageshan, Dayanand and Amit Gupta) headed to SAKET for dinner.
11:00 PM. Reached SAKET. We went to SBARRO restaurant for Pizzas where we were visited by Ravishekhar and Maitreyee from senior batch.
12:00 AM. We left the SBARRO restaurant. It was the time for the restaurant to close. There was only one employee in the restaurant. In the street we found entire Senior and Junior Placecom members. We decided to go Mac Donald Restaurant which was across the street. Since there were 20 of us, we went to upper floor which was almost empty by that time.
9th February 2011.
1:00 AM. We finished our meals. At that point I realized that I was not having my laptop bag with me. I started searching for it frantically. I inquired the staff at the restaurant but did not get any clue about the bag.
1:15 AM. I and others went to SBARRO restaurant but it was closed by that time. We tried to call the staff but the contact number was not available nor did the guard had any information about the owner. I returned to the hostel without any hope of finding the laptop. I concluded that some other customer took the advantage of me being in the group and took my bag with him.
3:00 AM. Still there were no sleep in the eyes. I was not able to come with terms that I have lost the Laptop worth Rs. 37, 000 which I purchased only 6 months before.
8:00 AM. Briefed Nandan about the situation and told him about the urgency of rushing to the spot.
8:30 AM. We reached Mac D and inquired the staff. They denied having any information about it. Went to SBARRO and found the same employee who was there last night but he also denied having any information about the Bag and the LAPTOP. We went back to the college to attend classes.
2:00 PM. We had lunch and planned to go to Police station to register the FIR about the Laptop theft.
2:30 PM. We reached the Police station which was hardly 100 meters away from the spot but the staff refused to register the complaint and told me to go to another police station which was 4 km away.
3:00 PM. After passing through many streets and battling through the traffic which was at its peak because of the school buses we reached the Saket Police Station.
3:15 PM. We talked to the staff at the station. A hardcore Haryanvi lady and a sub-inspector were busy registering frivolous complains which can only be termed as ridiculous at its best (A person was registering complain about phone call on which he was abused by another person on the other side). I explained the situation to the Sub Inspector and asked him the procedure to register the FIR. He told me to bring the receipt of the laptop along with the application.
3:30 PM. I went back to Yusuf Saray Hostel via Metro Train and returned back with 5 copies of the receipt.
4:00 PM. Wrote two applications, of which one was submitted to the SHO of the Saket Police Station along with the receipts. I explained the situation to SHO that the CCTV footage can’t be accessed without the orders from the police. He told me to go to the restaurant and to ask the manager to keep the footage safe so that matter can be looked into later.
4:30 PM. Reached the MAC DONALD Restaurant and showed the copy of the complaint to the manager. He told me to bring the police personnel along with me to see the footage. We tried our best to convince him to show us the CCTV footage but he didn’t responded.
5:00 PM. The manager didn’t yield. We guessed that he is seeing the footage himself and ascertaining that his staff is not involved.
5:30 PM. Manager told me that he has seen the footage and the laptop was with me when I left the restaurant. I told him that he is mistaking me for our General Secretary Rohit Sharma. Manager again said that he cannot show me the video as it is against the company’s policy.
6:00 PM. We kept doing our efforts and ultimately the manager yielded. He called me in the room, downstairs and showed me the footage. In the footage I saw that Laptop was not their when I leaved the restaurant and more surprisingly “it was not there on my shoulder when I entered the restaurant”.
6:15 PM. We thanked the staff and reached the SBARRO
number of their technical head and asked me to come tomorrow to see the CCTV footage.
7:00 PM. We reached the college and attended the IMF meeting. By this time I had left any hope of getting my laptop back and was thinking about possible means of buying another one. I talked to my friends in TCS about the availability of a second hand laptop and off course some udhaar to fund the laptop.
10th February 2011
10:30 AM. I tried to call the technical head whose mobile number I took a day before but the call didn’t happened. Finally called the restaurant and asked the manager about another number. I got a pleasant surprise. “They had found my laptop and asked me to come to the restaurant to take it.”
10:45 AM. I along with Nandan reached the restaurant and found the bag in the same condition and more importantly with the same content. The manager apologized at his part and told me that the employee who had left the restaurant early in the morning kept the laptop in the store and did not informed other employees. When the employee returned in the night he told the whole story. (Though, I sensed something fishy in their version.)
11:15 AM. We thanked the management at MAC DONALD Restaurant for their cooperation and returned to the college. Though I wanted to spend some more time over there but Nandan had to attend the FM class in the college.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.
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