Police outside my house at midnight, a thread.

5 mins to midnight, im chilling in my lounge when there's a loud knock and a man's voice tells me to open the door. Im trying to get my pants on and asking who it is simultaneously when Im told it's the police and they need to
Speak to me. Why? It's a search op and I need to show my id card. I grab ID, open the door to see my doorstep and stairway feature enough tall policeman to scare anyone. 7 policeman came on bikes claiming to be from Nishtar thana to verify I am a tenant. They are dead serious
Cop 1 takes my ID, looks at permanent residence address which is different from my rented apartments and ask me why I live alone when I have a family residence. I tell him its none of his business and he needs to explain why he's here, he starts writing my details down.
I tell the dude im not answering any more questions and call my friend/neighbour/saviour Osama who also lives in the society, is calm and a lawyer. Theyre all camped outside my house when Oz arrives at midnight. Same convo with him, asking for proof of residency which we provide
Asking to speak to my landlady who they call and intimidate also through my phone, asking her to verify and threatening to take us both to jail with an fir for illegal tenancy or some similar bullshit. Landlady tells them to fuck off, while she's still telling them they need to
Go to the society office in the morning to register any issue they have they cut the call on her face. Also realise that the lawyer standing with them will not pay them a single penny for their midnight revelry. They fuss, fume and eventually realise they're not making any
Progress and leave. By the time I catch my breath and we're piecing the incident together we realise there's a police naqa where I turn in for my society and its probably known fact by now that I live alone in the area. The guards at the society entrance aren't allowed to let
Police in unless theyve been called or there's been some emergency so it had to include their collusion but the fact that a single woman, living alone is such a blatant target for harassment/intimidation genuinely does come as a shock to me still
I am privileged. I have friends, family, people I can call and they'll show up and take care of the situation. Yet I have been reminded that at midnight, I am not safe in the house I have been living in for a year plus. I am a woman and I am not safe. Its the very defenders of
My safety that came, uninvited, without any legal cause, without any warrant, at an hour chosen to scare a single woman living on her own into... what yaar? Paisay chahiye the? I'm still reeling.
My landlady are I will be following up on these fuckers with the society off &
My friend will be following up the DSP of the thana they claimed to be from.
My mother is beyond stressed. I cant tell my sister, she's in a diff country and will stress even more. It's just a clusterfuck because some men in uniforms wanted to feel manly at the end of a work day
Thank you to everyone for all the help and concern. I genuinely just wanted some public documentation of the police outside my house while I waited for Osama to show up cause I had no idea what they wanted or what they couldve done. Thank you all for the support, will respond
As best as I can, which will be very little but grateful for all the outpouring of love help and concern ❤
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