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Subodh Saoji, Moron of the Day: Politician Kidnaps Electric Company Worker Over Bad Service

By Pete Kotz in Politicians, kidnapping
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 7:02 am
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​Today's Moron of the Day comes from the far-flung recesses of India, where they're not only stealing our jobs; they're stealing our weirdness too. It seems residents of the Buldhana district were just a little pissed at their power company...

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Indians broke out in dance to halt the power company from cutting off their electricity. It didn't work, so they resorted to kidnapping
​The Maharashtra Electricity Distribution Company sounds like the FirstEnergy to India. To conserve power, it was running rolling blackouts through the area, unexpectedly leaving residents without juice.

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What Saoji might look like if he could pass for a wicked hot Indian actress who was really good a cross-dressing
​So politician Subodh Saoji decided to score some points with his constituency. Along with his followers, he went to the electrical company and started jawing with a junior engineer. The man told Saoji that he wasn't responsible for ordering the blackouts, as one might expect from anyone with the word "junior" in his title.

But to his credit, Saoji wasn't about to be turned away from the evil corporation. He decided to kidnap the man and take him back to a village until the power company straightened out its shit. Then he called a more senior corporate official to let him know he had the engineer as a hostage.

(By the way, that's not his photo above. We couldn't find a picture of Saoji, so we decided to turn our misfortune into naked opportunity by running pictures of scantily clad Bollywood actresses. They're from India, right? Now back to the story...)

The engineer was treated well. He was merely kept in a car all night and released the next morning. But Saoji had violated an important tenet of kidnapping: Never confess to your crimes -- especially over the phone.

He was arrested for the abduction.

That was in 2002. But since the Indian courts are slower than a Cleveland judge who feels insufficiently bribed, the case would take eight years to finally be adjudicated. Saoji was fined and given a sentence of 18 months of "rigorous imprisonment."

Moral of the story: If you ever want to kidnap someone, lure them to India before you make your move. (Special thanks to St. Paul Bureau Chief Lorie for the tip.)
 
See yesterday's episode of Moron of the Day: Would-Be Kidnapper Claims He's a Misunderstood Samaritan.

Tags: India, Moron of the Day

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