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Prasanth:very sad ...RIP ravindra patil ji...
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very sad ...RIP ravindra patil ji...
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June 27, 2013 by SOUMYADIPTA BANERJEE
RAVINDRA PATIL: THE DEATH OF A MESSENGER
In India, the testimony of the prime witness is considered the most important document in a criminal case, which often influences the final verdict.
In the 2002 hit-and-run case of Salman Khan, the man who found himself in the epicenter of the controversy, was the prime witness of the case — constable Ravindra Patil.
Those close to Patil admitted that he was under enormous pressure to change his statement.
There were many who wanted Patil to change his statement. They preferred that Patil maintain that Salman leaned back to listen to him seconds before he lost control of the wheel. This would mean that the accident was caused by a ‘human error’ and not because he was drunk. Some people wanted him to say that Salman was not drunk at the time of the accident.
Whatever be the case, Patil did not change his statement till the last day.
It was unclear who was putting pressure on Patil — some say they were all ‘well-wishers’ of Salman Khan from the police force while others say that those talking to Patil were Salman’s common friends from the film industry. Whoever they were, the pressure tactic seemed to be working as Patil was showing signs of a nervous break-down.
Why was Ravindra Patil so vulnerable?
Patil was a constable and hence belonged to the lowest rung in the police force. He admitted numerous times that he was under pressure and he would always try to duck the media.
During 2006, when the examination of witnesses was on, Salman had hired the best lawyers in Mumbai who were all charged up to cross-examine Patil. But then, something unexpected happened. Patil just ran away one evening. His brother lodged a missing report about Patil at a local police station.
Day after day, Patil chose to skip court dates because he didn’t want to face the defence lawyer. Soon, Patil came under scrutiny of the court because he remained absent at the court hearings. The court proceedings were stuck because Patil was absent in the witness-box. It also came to light that he had run away without applying for leave.
In a strange twist of fate, a man who had actually lodged the first information report against Salman Khan now had an arrest warrant issued against him for not turning up at court hearings. The arrest warrant was issued after he failed to appear for five consecutive court dates.
As the judge ordered that he be arrested and produced in court, his seniors at the police force simultaneously approved that Patil be sacked from his job because he was absent from duty. His seniors chose to ignore the fact that technically Patil was ‘missing’ and not ‘absent’ according to their own records.
Nobody was interested in knowing why he had run away from his house. Or, why the same person who was so forthcoming in lodging a complaint against a Bollywood star like Salman Khan, didn’t want to take the witness-box. Patil was never put under any witness protection programme.
Patil was sent to Arthur Road jail with hardened criminals
Like how they deal with a hardened criminal, a task force was prepared to nab Patil and find out where he was ‘hiding’. Finding him was easier than anybody had thought because Patil was not hiding anywhere. Ravindra Patil was actually staying in a small hotel in Mahabaleswar, just a few kilometres away from Mumbai. He would come to Mumbai often to meet his wife and family. He was not on the run from the police and was going around telling everybody that he wanted to stay away from the Salman Khan case.
He had repeatedly requested his colleagues in Mumbai Police to work out a way so that he can be spared from the case. The problem was: He was the prime witness and without him the case didn’t stand a chance in a court of law.
How many of you hate going to court? How many of you don’t like how witnesses are grilled in criminal cases by defence lawyers? Well, if I go by Patil’s example, then all of you should be put in jail. Believe it or not, Ravindra Patil was sent to jail because of this ‘crime’.
The special police team swooped down on him, arrested him and produced at the court, the next day. The court sent him to Arthur Road jail, the biggest jail of Mumbai where most of the high-profile criminals are lodged.
Here are pictures after Patil’s arrest post a raid at a Mahabaleshwar hotel.
In Arthur Road jail, Ravindra Patil was incarcerated in a separate cell like they would treat an armed dacoit or a serial killer. Patil submitted fervent pleas that he doesn’t want to be grouped with criminals at the Arthur Road jail but the court was in no mood to relent.
Twice, Patil filed applications saying that he is a witness and that he be held at Unit nine of the Crime Branch and twice the court ignored the application. In his applications, Patil went on record saying that he went absconding as he was mentally disturbed at the thought of being cross-examined by defence lawyers. But nobody seemed to be interested in what he was saying.
If the courts didn’t pay heed to his pleas, his employers — the Mumbai Police — seemed to be on some revenge spree. A ‘missing’ Patil suddenly became an ‘absconding’ Patil in their own files and subsequently sacked from his job. This junior-most employee in the force tried every trick in the book to convince his senior officers that he should not be sacked from his job. But nobody was ready to listen.
A witness was suddenly at the receiving end of it all. Life was dealing this grand witness blows after blows while Salman Khan delivered hits after hits at the box office.
The last days of Ravindra Patil
After Patil was let out of jail, he found himself in a strange situation — his family had disowned him and the Mumbai Police was not ready to take him back. Patil didn’t know what to do — suddenly he was the victim because he saw the accident and spoke about it.
A broken man by then, Ravindra Patil went missing again.
Patil was finally discovered at the Sewri Municipal hospital in 2007. Patil was begging on the streets of Mumbai before he landed up at the hospital. The years of acute stress coupled with heavy drinking had made his body weak. Worse, he had contracted a drug-resistant tuberculosis which fast tracked him towards an inevitable end.
Patil wanted to get back in the police force but he was just a bag of bones lying on bed number 189 of ward number four on the fourth-floor of Sewri TB Municipal Hospital. His family members were not aware where he was and nobody had come to see him for a year.
Here are some moving pictures of Ravindra Patil, just days before his death.
Constable Ravindra Patil when he was on duty
Constable Ravindra Patil died on October 4, 2007.
Even after his death, there was nobody to take back his body. The friend who had admitted him to the hospital was so scared that he didn’t even inform his family. In the end, his brothers came forward to perform the last rites.
Before his death, Patil spoke to his friend expressing his wish to get back to the force again while throwing up blood on the cold floors of the Sewri Municipal hospital.
“I stood by my statement till the end, but my department did not stand by me. I want my job back, I want to survive. I want to meet the police commissioner once,” were his last words.
Clearly, even God chose not to hear him.
Ravindra Patil never rested in peace.
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Constable Ravindra Patil’s eye-witness accounts are still the most important documents in the 2002 Hit-and-Run case involving Salman Khan. It is now a case of homicide after a thorough re-examination of other witnesses.
Salman Khan faces a 10-year jail term in the case if he’s convicted.
Before we end, here is a news report about Patil after he was discovered just days before his death.
Short-link of the post -> http://wp.me/p3x1zT-g5
(a) The earlier post on Ravindra Patil: THE WRETCHED WITNESS
(b) The first post about Salman Khan’s 2002 hit-and-run case: Shah Rukh Khan versus Salman: Their first public fight
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ashok pai says:
July 3, 2013 at 4:47 PM
#Being Human
coincidentally, his brother’s SUV also crushed a woman. some track record huh ?
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Anuj says:
July 3, 2013 at 7:57 PM
I just hope that the law takes its course and punishes the one who is responsible for the act and the consequences. Salman or whoever.. should be looked like a common man and not a celebrity.
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Sam says:
July 5, 2013 at 9:44 AM
what do you mean Salman or whoever. Its very clear that if a man is willing to die by his statement that is the truth and Salman should be punished. Jago India Jago. Film personalities are just like you and me working for their bread and butter stop giving them Demi god/god status. Wrongdoer should be punished the law should be same for all……..SHAME ON ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE TRUTH
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WARDEEP SINGH says:
July 4, 2013 at 2:05 PM
THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS IN INDIA.. THE PERSON WHO IS A PRIME WITNESS IS MADE A CRIMINAL AND THE CRIMINALS ARE SET FREE…
SHAME ON INDIAN POLITICS AND POWER…. COMMON PERSON DOESN’T HAS ANY VALUE FOR LIFE..
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Afsal says:
July 4, 2013 at 3:19 PM
OMG! Poor guy, Sad! Very unfortunate! Hope his soul rest in peace! God bless him!
However, what did Salman do to him? Salman appointed lawyers to counter himself from the case, just like any1 of us would do. Wont u appoint a lawyer (or lawyers) if u r such a situation?
I’m confused, suddenly blog started filling up with “‘Harichandra’s” comments from all over the place.
Please don’t categorize a man’s efforts (Being Human) when a large number of people gets benefits out of it, Yes- he might have made a mistake, but personally I think just like many others that he should not be criticized for whatever he does. Any one of you who had posted such negative comments about Salman, could you do something like what he did to the society? Well, the strategic answer you could give is “well, Maybe” — jokes apart I don’t think anyone (commentators) of you could ever catch up-to Salman and his good deeds.
Again, we all mistakes, Big and Small, once it happens, it’s always about what you can do about it and continue to live and not to make it again, we can’t just commit suicide we did something bad. Everybody wants to live even if the chances are less (in some cases),
Even after all the pressures and nervous breakdown Patil (with due respect to him) wanted to LIVE. That’s a positive human nature.
What you all expect a person like Salman to do? At-least he is worth enough to live to serve other majority of the needy. If he has made mistake with 1 or 10 still he makes things right for 1000s of needy.
Don’t really want to talk about a Man, who is no more but,
It’s always better to avoid starting things which you can’t complete. He logged in the compliant and then ran away or ‘went missing’ & invited all trouble to himself. He could have just come out and fought it bravely. I am sure he could have had all your support (Commentators in the gallery).
Last but not least: to all fellow bloggers:
1. PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH (At-least try)
2. Do something for the country
3. Have respect for people
4. Analyze and understand Situation. Don’t let your imagination run wild.
N.B: The comment above is not of any argument nature. But it’s a viewpoint of an Indian Citizen. Please do not start Cyber warfare. Instead, use the time for something else which could benefit you.
Regards,
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Sam says:
July 5, 2013 at 9:51 AM
are you serious…..so in your words if Hitler were to come back and do a lot of charity work he can be pardoned???? NO WAY……What Salman did is inexcusable…he should be tried for murder because that is what he did. In any other country he would have been charged. Its the stupid demi god status that we give the actor in India which lets them get away with things like this.
In your opening argument you stated “However, what did Salman do to him? Salman appointed lawyers to counter himself from the case, just like any 1 of us would do. Wont u appoint a lawyer (or lawyers) if u r such a situation?”……do you think you would have a chance to defend yourself as a common man in such cases. You will be rotting in jail for date in court for hearing.
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Anonymous says:
July 5, 2013 at 7:08 PM
Very reasonable .im not a salman fan. If patil was on truth I feel sad for him. People didnt helped him when he needed most .now blogging strange!
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krishna says:
July 4, 2013 at 6:03 PM
Very sad to hear and read the story of Ravindra Patil… don’t know why any one has to save him from being cought… god is watching… you can fool, mislead… but at last you have to face the truth and bollywood knows the cinema better how THE END happens..
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Anonymous says:
July 4, 2013 at 8:03 PM
Really sad RIP the common Ravindra Patil may your soul find peace wherevr you are….Salman Khan plzzz enough of your hits…may God see the real you….
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anandsagar says:
July 4, 2013 at 8:24 PM
Shame on you Salman Khan. I was your fan but now no more!
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Nimblethrottle says:
July 4, 2013 at 8:37 PM
Really? No one to take care of the poor man? Do you know that India is the # 1 in the world for road accidents? Imagine if all the deaths caused by accidents were to be taken up so seriously. The answer to these 1,05,000 deaths a year is infrastructure and poor driving literacy. And despite the ‘strong’ laws and regulations the nation has been unable to curtail the accident-death rate. And it also sounds like a classic case of vulnerability, be it on the hospital bed or on the road. And laws are enforced because they are not understood. We need good lawyers.
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Anonymous says:
July 5, 2013 at 5:37 AM
I hate Salman!!
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Can some one paste the matter here? TIA.
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Family vallu vadileskodam matram too much ga anpichindi
space for lease
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Bad karma is a witch PD baa
eppatikainaa palitham anubhavinchaalsindhe
Be it Salman or somebody else
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