Cops, murder and a warrant – Anticlimax

What a drag!

Well I guess after got it right, most of the alarmed reactions to my previous were averted. For the uninformed – once upon a time I was a forensic expert and have conducted postmortem exam on 1000+ corpses. Most of those cases are still dragging on and even after 10 years I am still occasionally called to give evidence in court as an Expert witness, in case you are not aware, expert witnesses are the most privileged folks in a court after the Hon’ble Judge and can mostly talk at free will and give the lawyers of both sides a bad time if you know how to 😉

My usual stand these days is to ignore the summons since most of the times the other doctor who was the co-signatory goes to the court and does the needful, in case that does not happen a bailable warrant is issued in my name and the police sub-inspector comes home and ensures that the paperwork is completed – very very rarely a judge may get pissed off and issue a non-bailable warrant in which case the concern police inspector comes about an hour before the actual hearing and completes the formalities for the arrest, of course some benevolent source from the police station informs you well in advance that you are going to be arrested so you are ready – this has never happened with me till now and hence I was surprised!!

However, it turned out that even in this case the warrant was a bailable one and I did not get a free ride to the court and in the court I had to wait for 4 hours till they traced the public prosecutor at his home and the judge threatened him that he will release the witness (me) unconditionally.

So that was that.