RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Jan.2: Jharkhand’s government and its people need to work more for creation of a human friendly environment in the state, which is regarded as place of penance for many saints and sages other than nursery of hockey, birth place of Ramayan character like Hanuman, Savari and others.
It was experienced after reports of several heinous crimes came to the fore from different parts of the state though security personnel deployed in different forests and remote areas of the state left no stone unturned to maintain proper law and order in the state.
Despite keeping the naxal ménace by and large under control, it failed to put a check on criminal minds which caused several heinous crimes that rocked the state.
Among the most heinous crimes in the state one surfaced from Sahibganj in mid December last year. In the district having connection with rivers like Ganges, Rubika Paharia was cut into pieces by her husband Dildar Ansari for not accepting his religion.
Prior to this, on August 23 Shahrukh Hussain set sleeping Ankita Singh on fire in Dumka after she refused to accept his marriage proposal. A few days after the incident on October 7, a 22-yr-old Jarmundi girl, Maruti Kumari died after her ex-boy friend Rajesh Raut set her on fire after being angry with her refusal to marry him.
A school is supposed to be the safest campus for children but after a14-year old class X student of De Nobili School was killed on March 23 last year by his classmates in Sindri, this myth got broken.
A procession always entertains children but on February 6 last year a boy Rupesh Pandey who had accompanied his uncle in an immersion procession on the occasion of Saraswati puja at Barhi in Hazaribagh, he was lynched by a mob after a dispute over playing DJ, which is the most common equipment now a days for celebration. After the incident the situation became so tense that the administration had to suspend internet service for 27 days in the district.
On September 26 last a three months pregnant woman was raped by six men in front of her husband in Palamu district, The incident took place near Bakoria Bhaluahi Valley in the Satbarwa area.
The 22-year-old woman, following a quarrel at her in-laws’ residence in Patan area of Palamu district, left for her father’s house 35 km away in Manika area in adjoining Latehar district on foot. Her husband and one of his relatives left on a motorcycle to look for the woman and found her walking along National Highway 39 close to Manika around 8 PM.
According to the statement given to the police by the woman’s husband, as he was persuading her to return home; six men came on motorcycles, severely thrashed him and his relative, took his wife to a nearby location, where he could see and hear them, and raped her.
It is said that ‘daughter is a daughter throughout her life but a son is a son till he gets a wife’ but the saying proved wrong in Jharkhand after a contractor Kanhaiya Singh was shot dead on July 3 after his daughter Aparna and her lover Rajveer hatched a conspiracy.
Not only the daughter, the father in Jharkhand also crossed his limit last year. On October 31, a 40-year-old man hacked two minor daughters in his house at Parsabeda village under Keraikela thana area in West Singhbhum district. The victims were identified as Nima Bodra (8) and Heeramuni Bodra (6), both daughters of Budhan Singh Bodra who is said to be mentally deranged. According to a sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Chakradharpur, Kapil Chaudhury, late on Monday night Budhan was found by his wife while sharpening a chopper at their house.
On seeing Budhan sharpening the chopper, the wife wanted to know the reason behind it. But when he did not reply despite being asked repeatedly, the woman sensed something wrong and left home to call her fellow villagers. But when she returned home accompanied by about a dozen men, she found the door bolted from the inside. As Budhan did not open the door despite repeated knocks, some of the villagers removed a portion of the roof’s tiles and found two minor girls lying on a cot in a pool of blood.
On July 20, a sub-inspector posted at Tupudana police station Sandhya Topno died after cattle smugglers crushed her with their vehicle in the wee hours after she asked them to stop the vehicle on which they were carrying cattle.
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On November 22, a 35-year-old unemployed man killed his father, an employee of Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), at Barkakana in the district to get a job in the PSU on compassionate grounds. Krishna Ram (55), head security guard posted in Central Workshop of CCL at Barkakana in Ramgarh district was found dead with a throat slit.
(With inputs from Kumud Jenamani, Visvendu Jaipuriar, F Ahmed)
