How many more pilots have to give up their lives to shake 'you' up, asks wife of Mirage crash pilot
New Delhi : Garima Abrol, wife of IAF pilot Samir who died in a Mirage 2000 aircraft crash earlier this month, has sought to know how many more aviators will lose their lives for the authorities to realise there is "something really wrong" in the system.
In a moving Facebook post, Abrol said the feeling has still not sunk in that her husband is no more and that she will keep fighting for the cause that claimed Samir's life.
On February 1, Squadron Leaders Samir Abrol and Siddhartha Negi, both from Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment, died after their fighter jet crashed in Bengaluru.
They were conducting an acceptance sortie of the Mirage-2000 trainer, which had been newly upgraded by state-run aerospace company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
Though the two pilots made a bid to eject, they were caught in the flames as the plane crashed with a huge explosion.
"I am Garima Abrol I am the wife of Martyr Squadron Leader Samir Abrol...whose tears are still not dry... It still hasn't sunk in that you are gone. No one has the answer to my questions. Why YOU? My husband was a proud Indian and I loved sending him off to serve the nation with a morning cup of tea and a head held high.
"Every soldier's wife's biggest fear in life is when her husband would be called to the front line and serve in an active war. I too had this fear. Many a times I woke up crying after having one such bad dream... But Samir would hold me, console me and tell me...that (it) is the ultimate purpose of his job...to be able to serve our nation when the call comes... He wanted me to be brave, as that's what he was, a brave soldier, patriot to the core," she said in a Facebook post.
"How many more of these pilots have to give up their life to shake you up and make you realise there is something really wrong in the system? How many fighters have to give up their life for you to wake up?" she said.
In another post last week, Samir's younger brother, Sushant, had said while the bureaucracy enjoy its "corrupt cheese and wine", the air warriors are given "outdated machines" to fight.
An emotional poem penned by Sushant, posted on Facebook, states it is an "unforgiving" job to be a test pilot, given the risks it posses.
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Bank account in Ramgarh tracked for fraudulent fund transactions across 24 states, 4 arrested
Ramgarh (Jharkhand) (PTI): Jharkhand police on Thursday said it has unearthed a network of interstate cyber frauds and arrested four miscreants for fraudulent transactions through a bank account in Ramgarh district after complaints of 274 suspected transactions in 24 states.
The states where complaints for fraudulent transactions were registered included Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
The action followed inputs received through 'Samanvaya portal', a centralised, web-based platform launched by the Union Home Ministry to curb cybercrime.
"We arrested four cyber miscreants after a current account with Kuju (Ramgarh) branch of the State Bank of India was found to have registered suspected financial transactions in 24 states with the help of the Pratibimba portal of the Home Ministry through the Samanvaya portal," Ramgarh Superintendent of Police Mukesh Kumar Lunayat said.
During the probe, police found that the account was opened under the MSME Udyam Registration scheme in the name of Shree Ganesh Enterprises, he said.
The account had been linked to as many as 274 complaints from different states related to cyber fraud and illegal fund transfers.
The registered proprietors of the enterprise were identified as Rahul Gupta (37), Ravi Kumar Verma (34), and Ajay Sharma (33), all residents of Ramgarh district, a statement from the Ramgarh police said.
During interrogation, Rahul Gupta and Ravi Kumar Verma revealed that they had opened multiple current accounts at the behest of Ritesh Agrawal alias Munna (40) and Sonu Kumar Jha (34).
They admitted receiving Rs 1.2 lakh in exchange for facilitating the opening of these accounts.
"The accused further confessed to sharing OTPs, activating mobile banking services, and handing over control of the accounts to the main operators through WhatsApp and Telegram groups. These accounts were then allegedly used to route fraudulent transactions.
Police said mobile data analysis of the accused led to the recovery of crucial digital evidence, including details of SIM cards, bank accounts, passbooks, ATM cards, QR code scanners, Aadhaar cards, and PAN cards shared through messaging platforms.
A total of four accused have been arrested so far and sent to judicial custody.
A case has been registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023 and Sections 66C and 66D of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Further investigation is underway, the police said.
