Car seva: Bomb scare for Jasvir

Car seva: Bomb scare for Jasvir

The actress left her car at a petrol pump because of a deflated tyre; the cops towed it away after a resident complained of a possible car bomb, thinking it's an unclaimed car

Vickey Lalwani
vickey.lalwani@mid-day.com

On August 9, TV actress Jassi Kaur finished her K Street Pali Hill shoot at Sankraman and joined husband Aziz at Chandivli Studios. He was shooting for the film Jhoom there. "I was missing him very much that day, and decided to land up at his shoot. I knew he wouldn't pack up before 2 am. So why not be with him till then?" she says.
However, Aziz got free only at 5 am, and the couple decided to drive back home in Aziz's Lancer. "I gave my car (Honda Accord) to the other members of the cast and crew of Jhoom, who were driving just behind us," Jassi tells us. Along the way, the car's tyre burst and they had to push the car to a petrol pump nearby. "Thereafter, we headed home. Little did we know what would happen next," she says.
Bomb scare
The next day, Jassi left for Delhi for a show. Aziz did not pick up the car from the pump. Says Jassi, "The Lancer's tyres are low profile tyres, which are not easy to get. More often than not, we have to get them by order."
While in Delhi, Jassi got a call from a friend to say that her Lancer was being towed away. But Jassi did not take immediate action or inform Aziz, thinking that the RTO authorities must have towed the vehicle away. "I thought I'd come back and pick it up myself," she says.
Three days later, Jassi checked with RTO and got a shock. They had no knowledge about her car. A long search hunt followed, which finally ended at the MIDC police station. "Somebody had complained from the petrol pump area that an unclaimed car was lying there. The complainant had obviously feared that the car might have a bomb, so the police towed the car away."
Security ka chakkar
But at the police station, the ordeal wasn't over yet. The couple hadn't carried the original documents of the car. The cops demanded that Aziz's dad should come to pick up the car, since it's registered under his name. "We managed to convince the police that he was not required to be brought there. The car was simply registered under his name and he does not drive. We had taken it in his name two years back, since we didn't have much work and were not paying income tax at that time," says Jassi.
Now heaving a sigh of relief, she says, "Thank God it's over. Next time, we'll never leave our car anywhere. Aaj kal security ka chakkar bahut strict ho gaya hai. I wish the government does something about the broken roads all over, varna woh tyre nahin phata hota aur yeh saari musibat paida hi nahin hoti!"