Saturday, September 15, 2007
Pathetic Sri lankan railway/police
It's a week since Osandi lost her phone at Pettah railway station while she was in the girls' rest room. Those memories were brought back when I saw yesterday news, where fair amount of people protesting poor quality of service of Railway by blocking the train transport and creating chaos. And funny part about it that all station master, fellow from transport board and the minister accept that there are misconducts by Railway. And like in Sri Lanka, no action is taken so far to irradicate any problems. Same happend when we went to complain the phone was lost. First it was the station police, who said that those sort of stealing happens every day and you can make a compain go home and forget that anything like that happened. Even the women who is looking after the things in the women rest room says that she has no idea what happened to the phone. I thought here job is to look after things! If someone (A thief) is coming each and every day she should be able to note down he/her. Also it wouldn't be difficult to identify a thief if she's careful enough to link between thefts and the people appearing in a theft scene. It can be assumed with common sense that people working there including the railway staff and some police members may be involved in the theft taking place in the railway station. Also when we went to the police to put an entry, they were not very keen to take down it. BUT it is of utmost important as your SIM card may be used to carry out illegal activities after steeling and only way to protect is to report your loss to the police. Also they requested the IMEI number of the phone, which I didn't have any idea of. Then I figured out that it is the number used to identify the phone uniquely. You can find out the EMEI number of anyphone using *#06#. It would be useful to take that down. Also I learnt from the police and Mobitel that it is possible to track down the EMEI number from the logs of the servers. But required a court order to do so. But stealing of phone under the worth of 30000 isn't good enough to get a court order. (It's funny how law allow thiefs to get away). Anyway if you have access to servers you can track it down as every call that is being made using the phone record phone number and the EMEI number of the phone. BUT most IMPORTANT of all things is that BE CAREFUL every where you go.
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