28-year-old Afreen Shaikh roams the streets punishing those who harass women.A twenty-eight-year-old woman who roams the streets of Virar on a black, Bajaj Eliminator, patrolling the area like a cop and arbitrarily dispensing justice, has become a big annoyance for the police.Afreen Shaikh, who claims she was once on Virar police station’s peace committee, has now been summoned by the cops to explain her brazen and freewheeling ways.The black motorcycle on which she dashes about carries no number plate, and she does not bother to wear a helmet. She delivers “instant justice” to wrong doers, especially youths who harass women.Shaikh is a resident of Y K Nagar, Virar, where she has been staying since her return from the UAE six years ago. She is a housewife, while her husband works in a call centre. They have three children. The story goes that she had tried her hand at riding a motorcycle in the UAE too but was pulled up for it. She decided to return to India as she found life there too stifling.A local from the area, Gopal Jagjivan Ram (30) has often witnessed Shaikh in action. “She was not wearing a helmet and there was no registration number on her vehicle. She ordered some youths to do pushups as a punishment for harassing a group of college girls from Virar.”The additional superintendent of police at Vasai Circle, Sangramsinh Nishandar, has taken serious note of her “bindaas” attitude. Instead of taking the law into her own hands she should be hauling the miscreants to the police, said Nishandar.“We are investigating her. Shaikh could be a former member of the peace committee at Virar police station, and we are checking the records,” he said, “Peace committees in the Thane rural police district change every year. We have gathered she has a visiting card saying she is on some committee. As of today, she is not on any panel of the Virar police station and we will take action if she claims otherwise. And she has no authority to punish anyone.”Shaikh refused to talk to this reporter. For all her dramatic public appearance, she appears to be fiercely private. In fact, even when Police Inspector Chandrakant Jadhav of Virar police station called her over for an explanation for her actions, Shaikh refused to share her contact numbers with him.“I told her to paste the registration number on her motorcycle as it is against the rules to not carry it,” said Jadhav. The police said they will deal with her later, after the Ganesh festival which is currently consuming all their resources.