Cycling
School
1955-56,
he passed his tenth class through Verinagh High School with distinction. For
higher studies, he joined Khanabal Degree College, Anantnagh. To avoid daily to
and fro expenses on bus fair and to save time, he shifted to his mother’s
sister at Anantnagh. He was provided with a separate room for his studies and
pin drop silence around the study was assured and maintained without any
promulgation.
The
family earned a special status in the locality for his being the first
intermediate scholar at the Degree College, Khanabal. The aunt earned the
status of a special aunt.
Soon
he became a very important person in the house. He laid his hand on the old
bicycle of his cousin. He boasts that he did not join any Cycling School or any
Driving School later on.
The
only fault with his cycling was that his reflexes failed when he needed to
apply brakes to his outdated borrowed bicycle. It mattered little to him when
he struck against the gate of the Shereen Bagh. The bruises all over his body
could be escaped in case of timely response of his reflexes.
One
day on his return from the college, his attention was concentrated on the
onlookers. The bicycle almost brushed a female pedestrian. Her father seized
collar of the naïve cyclist and dragged him to SSP’s office chamber instead to
the Police station.
The
culprit tore his own shirt clandestinely and complained that he was beaten by
the Pundit Ji despite his plea that he was naïve cyclist and event was not a
deliberate one.
The
SSP in his chair was a serene and a tall person suited to the chair. The
culprit, seeing a towering personality in the chair turned pale. He baffled and
pleaded innocence. The complainant was conscious that the crime was not rarest
of the rare so pleaded vehemently for a minimum life imprisonment. The accused
heaved a sigh of relief when he was set free with a warning to be careful
thereafter.
Later
on in 1965 he qualified KPS and submitted his joining report as Dy.S P to the
then DIG D N Koul IPS (retired IGP, Jammu & Kashmir). He was apprehensive
lest Koul Sahib remember his advice of 1955 to the then a naïve cyclist.
