NEW DELHI: Trying to overtake a VVIP’s convoy can provide to be costly. More so when the VVIP happens to be the former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar.
Vikram Dasgupta, a second year student of Ramjas College was going for his billiards game to the Siri Fort sports complex with three friends. He left home in Chittranjan Park around 7:30 p.m. to make it in time for the game.
I was in a bit of a hurry. Buta white Ambassador in front refused to give way (down the Chirag Delhi road). It tried twice but in vain, Luckily, at a crossing the ambassador stopped. And took a left turn (towards Gargi College). Men in another car gave me dirty looks. But1 went my way. That was all,” says Vikram. The boys drove into the club, played their game and headed home. “By 9:30 p.m. I was back,” says Vikram,
Around 4:30 a.m., the Dasgupta household was woken up by the area police. A police van stood outside. Vikram says the policeman told them they got a message from the police control room. A white Ambassador, RRR 3275, was involved in a shoot-out {around 10:30p.m.). As the vehicle was parked outside their house, they had come to seize it and take its driver to the police station. The car belonged to the Dasgupta and Vikram had driven it.
The Dasgupta were taken by surprise but went along to the Chittranjan Park police station (around 6:30-7 a,m.) Vikram says the policemen were very nice. They gave a patient hearing.
The Dasguptas said the policemen told them the car Vikram was trying to overtake was the former prime minister, Chandrasekhar’s “Maybe he isn’t used to other cars coming close. And may be the incident upset him,” the Dasguptas were told.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 3, 1992
