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Stopped, threatened, or shaken down over a vape?

AVI has done this before: a 2020 crowdsourced confiscation-report form logged 60 incidents and directly produced the petitioners in AVI's ongoing flight-ban case. This is the same idea, for street-level police harassment — the more reports, the stronger the evidence for the next legal or policy fight.

Report an incident

City, date and what happened are published only as anonymous numbers below — never as an individual story. Everything below the divider (email, extra details) is optional, kept private, and never committed to this site's public code — it only reaches AVI directly, and only if you say yes to being contacted or leave a note.

What happened? (select all that apply)

What's been reported so far

2reports logged
₹5,000total demanded or paid
2devices never returned

Reports by city

  • Bangalore1
  • Mumbai1

Numbers update automatically as reports come in — no manual review sits between a submission and this count, since nothing identifying is ever collected in the fields that feed it. Tracker live since October 2026 — counts start from there, not from AVI's earlier confiscation reports.

You're not the only one

A small sample of accounts other vapers have already shared publicly, on Reddit — not part of the count above, since this tracker only counts reports submitted directly through the form below. If any of this sounds familiar, add your own — it's what turns "someone online said" into evidence AVI can actually use.

MumbaiVaping near a Malad office, an officer demanded ₹25,000 and took ₹2,000 cash after checking the poster's phone and bank balance.BangaloreTwo friends paid ₹20,000 after officers found photos on their phones and used them as leverage.BangaloreStopped and slapped by an officer over a vape in Indiranagar — the thread went on to draw a 3,400-vote poll on India's vaping ban.DelhiA vape found in a passenger's purse by CISF on the Delhi Metro was handed over to Delhi Police.MumbaiA separate stop by a "suspicious cop" over a vape, recounted in detail on r/mumbai.MumbaiCommenters describe officers charging up to ₹1,500 — well above the ₹200 COTPA cap for public smoking — or simply seizing the device, specifically when it's a vape.

Know your rights →

The law, in one place — what to say and do if you're stopped, right now.

How reports become cases →

See the flight-ban case this same crowdsourcing approach already built.