Dalit cobbler made to polish cop's shoes to register case

A dalit cobbler was made to polish the cops’ shoes to register the theft of a mobile phone in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar   district, nearly 500 kilometres from Lucknow. 

Fifty-year-old Sittu, belonging to Haibatpur village in Muzaffarnagar, had approached cops at the Charthawal police station to report that someone stole his mobile phone and requested them to find out the missing gadget as he was too poor to buy a new one.  Upon learning that he was a cobbler, the cop responsible for registering complaints at the police station asked Sittu to polish the shoes of the cops there if he wanted the complaint to be registered.  

As the cobbler returned with the polishing kit from home, police seemingly rushed to get the free service. However, the cops failed to keep their end of the bargain, telling the hapless Sittu that the mobile phone stolen from him could not be traced as it was harder to recover stolen cell phones. The issue came to light when the video went viral on social media.