The mason, who had written a police selection test, had snatched away a real cop's wireless set and began acting as a cop himself.
It is the sad story of a mason who dreamt of being a cop and will never ever become one.
Somashekara grew up in the working class neighbourhood of a Kolar village playing the cop with his little friends in the dusty streets of KGF. To reach his goal, he studied up to Matric, wrote a police selection test recently and was waiting for the results.
That was the start of his troubles and his friends filled his obsessed mind with the hope of passing the test. He should start acting as a cop to gain confidence, they told him. But their advice had disastrous consequences.
Somashekara, 21, is now cooling his heels behind bars for playing the traffic cop and fleeing arrest after snatching a real cop's wireless set near HAL last week.
The youth hailing from a backward community could have cleared the police selection test. But he wanted to check how he could work when he becomes the cop. So he came to the city to perform the act.
Last Friday, after the day’s labour, he went near Kundenahalli gate on Varthur Main Road and began the act by first stopping a motorcycle and questioning the rider why he was not wearing the helmet. He even slapped a fine on him. But the biker was a local resident and he had never seen this traffic cop before.
He also found that the ‘cop’ was drunk. Somashekara then targeted an autorickshaw and started a noisy argument with its driver. Soon residents gathered and called HAL police.
The police, in turn, asked head constable Gangadhar and constable Buden Sab, who were on night patrol in the area, to check it out. They duo found that Somashekara was not a policeman.
Around 10.30pm, Gangadhar hired an autorickshaw and bundled the youth into it. The auto headed towards the police station with the constable following the vehicle on his bike. En route, Somashekar snatched Gangadhar’s wireless set before pushing him aside and jumping from the autorickshaw. Sab chased him in vain.
However, on Sunday, HAL inspector C Balakrishna and his team arrested Somashekara from his home in a village near KGF. They found the wireless buried in an open space behind the house.
On interrogation, Somashekar admitted that he was trying to act as cop following the ill advice of his friends. But he refused that he was drunk.
Somashekar was produced in the court and placed in judicial custody for 15 days.
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