WB Police: Kolkata Police: पुलिस वाले भी स्टिंग ऑपरेशन करते है, और कैसे पकड़ लेते है झूठ

Sleuthing, strategies and hot chases are all very well, but there are times when cops have use that other potent weapon: sweet talk. In some cases, when the going gets tough, cops find it best to go smooth, often finding culprits walking straight into the trap.

Shivlal Kukwas, a known criminal, recently found out that cops had turned on the charm to nail him. Kukwas and his gang members were caught by crime branch for a burglary. Police knew he had stashed the stolen Rs 1.10 lakh somewhere. But Kukwas had clammed up during questioning.

So, the investigators planned a trick. They found out about Rajesh Patle, who is Kukwas's best friend, from his cell phone details. The cops called up Rajesh and posed as ardent sympathizers of Kukwas. "Please arrange for a good lawyer for him. We being police have to take action but we feel sorry for Kukwas," the cops told Patle.

Having softened him up thus, the cops then told Patle: "You have the money that Kukwas gave you. Please use the cash for his bail and lawyer's fee." Patle, the good friend that he was, fell for the spiel. He came with the cash to meet the lawyer and was trapped. Police recovered the stolen cash and also took him into custody for helping a criminal.

While smooth talk can get a criminal nailed, it can also let an innocent person off the hook. A couple of years ago, senior inspector PV Bele of Hudkeshwar police station, planned a similar trick to exonerate a man from a false rape charge. The officer had smelled something fishy in a minor girl's claim that a man had raped her. Wanting to know the truth, Bele gave the girl his personal cellphone to talk to her brother. "Talk to your brother and lighten your heart," Bele told her, sympathy personified. Inside his mind, however, his ploy was playing out. The canny cop had turned on the voice recorder on his cellphone before handing it over to the girl.

After talking to her brother, the girl handed back the cellphone to Bele, who asked her to relax. Back in his chamber, Bele listened to the girl's conversation and found out that she was framing an innocent man in a bid to save her elder sister's husband. A DNA analysis had already proved that the man the girl had accused was not the one who had impregnated her. It was Bele's act that helped police know who the real culprit was.

Another officer told a story about a gang of fraudsters that was stonewalling the cops' grilling. After days of frustration, the cops, one fine day, walked into the room of an accused. They were in celebratory mood and were congratulating each other. "The man got thoroughly confused at this sight. We told him that the other accused had spilled the beans and fingered him as the main culprit. Enraged at his 'back-stabbing' buddies, the man revealed all the secrets and was nailed," said the officer.