Law and order getting lynched by groups
Two gruesome incidents that can cost India its name have occurred in Delhi and Maharashtra. While the first incident shows the country still seeped in superstition, the second one shows the denigrating law and order system of this country.
Eleven members of a family, including seven women have ended their lives in Delhi. All their bodies were found in the state they had hung themselves. All of them have followed a similar thought and operation process. The whole incident is very mysterious. Books relating to black magic and supernatural powers were found in the house. They all probably died with the hope that some divine superpower would save them at the last minute. The family not only firmly believed in god, but also had great interest in paranormal practices. Either one of them has killed every one and ended his own life; or all of them ended their lives by their own will. Investigations have pointed fingers towards such truths. The family was well educated. If such families have to fall prey to ending lives seeking divine powers, it shows that people still live in the illusion of superstition.
Television channels broadcast programmes relating to paranormal techniques or such practices for higher TRP. They also evoke fear and sense of uncertainty among people. Faith is different from blind belief in superstition. But here, both seem to have been mixed up. This incident has taken place owing to those who thought they’d make everything work to save them. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened.
Everyone including media, politicians and industrialists are guilty of perpetuating this belief. They keep following false gods to fulfil their greed, and this mislead innocent people. Agents of superstition such as black magic and voodoo practitioners, self proclaimed gods, vaastu experts and other perpetuate such unsubstantiated beliefs. For them, it is mere business. But for people, it is the only lifeline they hang from.
Faith in god should save us, instead of finishing us off. Such beliefs never take us to god. In such cases, it is better being an atheist than a believer. Today, government is directly involved in propagating such beliefs. Every politician follows a swamiji who dictates his life like a remote controller.
All their faith is to clinch power during this lifetime, and not for some spiritual realization. This could be the failure of our education system too that it couldn’t create awareness. The incident in north Delhi is a testimony of this. Our education couldn’t convince people that their search of Jihad is similar to this and it does not lead to heaven at all. While we speak against Jihadis, we also need to address this issue of blackmagic through the language of law.
In the recent times, a lady had severed her tongue to earn the affection of her goddess. One would wonder who gave her this impression that her god would be pleased with this. If those people are not punished, their numbers will increase with passing time. Though a war has been waged against superstition, intellectuals didn’t invest themselves in this to ensure it was implemented. The government isn’t willing to admit self proclaimed babas harm the image of this country more than anything else because government is caught in their web.
In another incident, five people have been beaten to death by mobs which assumed they were child traffickers. This happened in Dhule in Maharashtra. While people are unabatedly engaging themselves in such rumour based crime, assumed to be a ‘quasi government’ by themselves, gau rakshaks have also ruined things for worse. They work like police force with no hesitation of being caught doing wrong. They are responsible for new found appetite for human blood powered by technology. A lot of people have died owing to this and even more lives would be lost soon. Gau rakshaks work as an inspiration to many what with their power structure and privileges they enjoy.
These assaults cleverly employ the loopholes in legal system to carry out with their lynching. Most of the times, it is their communal feeling that pushes them into such behaviour. Most of the migrant laborers have been victims of their sporadic violence and they are usually dalits. The mobs know killing someone in a group can help them escape punishment. While superstition is claiming lives, on the other, communal forces are killing people by giving their verdict by spreading rumours and egging people on through unsubstantiated whatsapp forwards that have ended many lives by now. If central home minister prefers to maintain silence and not open his mouth to condemn it, even cops may lose their lives at the hands of such vilified forces.
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SIR in Gujarat: More than 17 lakh deceased voters found on electoral rolls
Ahmedabad (PTI): The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Gujarat has revealed that more than 17 lakh deceased voters were still included in the existing voter list across the state, a release by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has stated.
According to the release issued on Thursday, the SIR exercise started in Gujarat on November 4 with booth-level officers (BLOs) distributing enumeration forms in their designated areas.
The campaign will continue till December 11.
"In the last one month, enumeration forms have been distributed to more than five crore voters registered in the 2025 electoral roll. In most of the 33 districts, 100 per cent of the distribution has been completed. Work on digitising the returned forms is currently underway. So far, the digitisation work has been completed in 12 out of 182 assembly constituencies," it said.
These include Dhanera and Tharad of Banaskantha district, Limkheda and Dahod (ST) of Dahod district, Bayad of Aravalli district, Dhoraji, Jasdan and Gondal of Rajkot district, Keshod of Junagadh district, Mehmadabad of Kheda district, Khambhat of Anand district and Jalalpore of Navsari district.
Dang district is at the forefront in this work with 94.35 per cent digitisation of the counting forms, said the release.
"During this exercise, it was revealed that 17 lakh deceased voters were still included in the electoral roll across the state. More than 6.14 lakh voters were found absent from their addresses. It has been noticed that more than 30 lakh voters have permanently migrated," the release said.
BLOs found more than 3.25 lakh voters in the "repeated" category, which means that their names figured at more than one place, the release stated.
