Uttar Pradesh in the hands of criminals
There was a time, when states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were known a ‘jungle raj’. Robberies and dacoities were common on streets, on trains and any space used by general public.
People would fear going out in the night. Even the police department had a notorious reputation those days since common public who went to stations seeking justice or to lodge a complaint, would never be unsure if they’d return alive. Police officers were under the control of zamindars. Citizens had to fear the criminals on one hand and the police, on the other. In the recent days, looks like this situation has returned and this time around, it has gone from frying pan to the fire.
At a time when general public would be scared of anti social elements; now, even the Bihari police have to fear the criminals. The police who watched the lynching of Akhlaq on the pretext of him having stored beef (which turned out to be a false allegation later) are now the target of criminals. This is somewhat like the story of a tiger who tasted human blood. Those who love the smell of blood won’t decipher between the blood of commoners or that of the police.
As a proof of the fact that Sanghi goondas have completely taken over the law and order system in Uttar Pradesh, another police officer has been murdered. Even when the lynching of one police officer at Bulandshahr is still fresh on people’s mind and the investigation is yet to progress, another police constable has been done to death in an incident of targeted stone pelting.
The constable was on his way home from duty, when death came calling. As usual, the UP CM has hardly spoken about this. This is an open challenge that the goondas have posed to the police department in UP.
Irony is, if they were mere rowdies, they would have been killed in staged encounter by now. The police who could mercilessly shoot and kill the Dalits like stray canines, when they staged protests, killing rowdies is no big deal really.
But they are helpless in UP. Because the ones who killed the cops are not mere rowdies, but political activists in the guise of keepers of culture. And they even have the silent concurrence of the CM of this state. To act against them is to act against the CM or the entire political system itself.
Which is why, saving their own life is a big deal for the police there beyond catching the culprits. This is contributing a lot to the increasing criminal activities in UP. The police are forced to share a very cordial relationship with the criminals owing to the political support the latter possess.
They can move the police to any place if the latter do not dance to their tunes. If that’s not possible, the conventional mode of punishing such as murder, is an easier option for the goondas who are given clean chit by someone as big as the CM Yogi Adityanath.
His statement will not condemn the killing, but merely call it an ‘accident’ and hand it over to the investigating agencies to delay things further. This has given the culprits major boost to continue on killing spree after the Bulandshahr incident.
This indirectly encouraged the next murder both these incidents are warnings issued by the Sangh Parivar to the police department in UP. A report says such blatant ‘cautions’ have increased after the recent killings to indicate ‘this would be the fate of everyone who’d defy us’.
Sangh goondas are getting a major impetus with this and this is working very badly on the morale of the law implementing agencies. How would the police ever perform their job if they are threatened for simply imparting their duties? That the goondas enjoy political support is another matter altogether.
With these murders, the criminals are on the way to totally take control of the law and order situation in UP. None of the oral instructions seem to be working at all. Recently, retired officers had written to CM Adityanath and had implored him to uphold the duty of public office, by ensuring that the situation is free from threat for the officers to perform their duties.
But considering the political background of Adityanath, these things do not seem to materialize in UP yet. Because the CM himself assumed power by way of hate speech and mob leading mentality. How can he instruct the officers to act against his own men? The President needs to intervene for UP to come under control. Either the CM has to resign, or the government needs to be dismissed and the President rule needs to be imposed.
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19-yr-old woman found hanging from tree in UP village; juvenile held
Lucknow/Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Police have apprehended a 16-year-old boy for his alleged involvement in the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in a village here, officials said on Monday.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, said that the body of a 19-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree in an orchard in the Manikpur police station area on Sunday morning. A post-mortem examination subsequently confirmed that she had been raped.
Police registered a case against unidentified persons under sections 103(1) (punishment for murder) and 70(1) (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and initiated an investigation.
During the course of the investigation, the police found that the deceased was in contact with a juvenile who was also her relative.
Acting on this information, during a joint checking operation, sub-inspector Amit Kumar Singh of Manikpur police station and SOG In-charge Amit Kumar Chaurasia, along with their team, apprehended the 16-year-old near the Lehdari Ganga River bridge.
The search for other accused persons is ongoing, police said.
According to the police, the woman had gone to sleep after dinner on Saturday night but was found hanging in an orchard nearly 400 metres away from her home the following morning.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, had earlier said that the circumstances suggest foul play.
"The victim's slippers and undergarments were recovered 50 metres away from the spot where the body was found. There are visible injury marks on her body," Rai said.
While locals have alleged that the woman was murdered after being raped, the ASP said that it is "prima facie a case of murder."
"Based on the complaint filed by the victim's brother, a case of murder has been registered against unidentified persons," the officer added.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, in a post on X in Hindi on Monday, said, "The news of the heinous murder of a Dalit daughter in Pratapgarh is deeply tragic and condemnable."
"The question remains: why does the spate of murders of 'PDA daughters' continue unabated in Uttar Pradesh? Are the BJP government's claims regarding women's safety merely hollow rhetoric, or is there, in fact, discrimination even in the provision of security for women?" he said.
"Whenever the 'wandering Honourable (ghumantu maananiye)' finds a moment of respite from election campaigning, he should cast a glance at the plight of the daughters of his own Uttar Pradesh. In any case, apart from injustice and oppression, no sister, daughter, or mother of this state holds any hope from you," Yadav added.
