Gujarat: Rising to number 1 in Crime?

This is not what Gujarat is meant to be, this is not what Gujarat was envisioned to be!

Every street of once-a-heaven Gujarat is now a crime news-source. There has been a staggering rise in cases of theft, burglary, murder, rape and kidnapping in last few years. The NCRB data reflect the same.

While police and security agencies are busy satisfying one person's political and personal ambitions, the people of Gujarat have to suffer...

- While in 2011, thefts worth Rs. 350 crore were reported, in 2012 this number sore to Rs. 1,504 crore. Recovery ratio is embarrassingly low: only 5%! Leave aside the people, even God's are not safe!

- 56,941 children were reported missing between 2007-2012. Out of these, 5812 children are still untraced. Even in his own constituency Maninagar, the CM has not been able to do anything about the kidnapping of two children from the municipal schools they went to!

- There has been 73% increase in rape cases and 119% increase in abduction cases. 75% murder accused, 93% accused of attempting murder and 85% rape accused have not been convicted due to poor investigation.

- Even political murders cannot be ignored! There have been 4 murders of RTI activists (maximum in any state) who were "the whistleblowers". Not one of the cases have been brought to an end.

- Recent cases of theft and murder have shocked the city like Ahmedabad! How did the robbers gather so much courage to kill and loot a trader in broad daylight? Where was the police?

These incidents bring the real face of Gujarat out and should be followed by the media. An incident in places like Delhi and everyone gets busy accusing the Centre, so why no immediate action on cases in Gujarat?

BJP, Corruption, Yeddyurappa and 'Snoopgate'!

So is BJP serious about corruption? You're making a mistake if you think it is...

- One of the most allegedly corrupt BJP Chief Ministers B.S. Yeddyurappa (Karnataka) is back in BJP. This is the same Yeddyurappa whom the people of Karnataka rejected strongly by voting-in Congress in the last assembly elections.

- Now why would that be? If we believe that BJP's strategies were wrong during assembly polls, then Yeddyurappa was a liability. Then why so sudden change of heart...?

- It is because the roots of 'snoopgate', where Amit Shah, the then Home Minister of Gujarat, used police and intelligence machinery to spy on a woman on the commands of his 'Saheb' (Boss), go till Karnataka! The lady in question was from Bengaluru and during that period of time Yeddyurappa was the Chief Minister.

- As anyone can guess, Yeddyurappa surely knows more than what he shows about this whole 'scandal'. BJP has not been able to give convincing answers on the snoopgate while, as usual, Modi has kept mum.

- Now the question is, will the media, common people and judiciary, take a note of this development? Or we are just going to forget how security and personal life of a woman was compromised just because a man in top position was 'interested' in her life?

Vadodara Building Collapse: What Narendra Modi is hiding from you...

As you are aware, 11 persons killed and 5 injured in Collapse of Two towers at Madhavnagar, In EWS Housing scheme of VUDA. More than 1500 Houses in Madhavnagar, Keshavnagar and Dindayalnagar Phase 1, 2 -3 are constructed under EWS  Housing Scheme of CM Narendra Modi's 15 Point Programmme by VUDA. The conditions of most of these houses are similar to the houses that collapsed in Madhavnagar. Today 458 families of Madhavnagar are residing on Street with no alternative arrangement made for them and  are right now struggling with the authorities for alternative arrangements in LIEU of poor quality houses provided to them.

Initial survey by a team of Structure Engineers in MSU reported that more than 80 % houses of Madhavnagar should be demolished immediately to ensure that similar incidents do not occur in future.

This is a very Historic Case of Corruption as for the first time in history so many houses built for Urban Poor under Government scheme, by the Government needs to be demolished due to poor Quality of Construction. A classic example of extreme Corruption in Narendra Modi Government. There is a mass anger in the affected families as 500 families are forced to live on streets and others are struggling for alternative arrangements.

Narendra MODI wants to hush up everything and hence quickly constituted a Inquiry Commission, but the same officer Mrs. Manjula Subramaniam IAS, who was also a Chief Secretary in MODI Government, and a Urban Secretary under whose tenure this houses were constructed is nominated as head of Inquiry Commission. How can she be trusted to give an independent inquiry when she herself is right now under scanner? 

It is Deliberate attempt by Narendra MODI to Under play one of the BIGGEST Corruption "A HOUSING SCAM" where in more than 1500 Government Houses for Economically weaker Section needs to be demolished in period of 5-10 years . The so called houses which were designed to be earthquake resistant as highlighted on Government Websites by FEKU MODI.

(This text is derived from a letter to the media by Vadodara City District Congress Committee)

The Tale of Missing Children in Gujarat

- Gujarat government's Crime Investigation Department (CID), which is the nodal agency in the state for investigating cases pertaining to missing children, has admitted that most kids missing are teenagers, and they end up becoming child workers, with girls taken into sex rackets.

- CID's own track record in tracking down children who went missing is poor. Between 2007 and 2011, it failed to track as many as 4,314 children who went missing in this period couldn’t be tracked.

The success rate of children traced is very poor. During 2012-13, up to March, only 37% of those who have gone missing have been tracked -- 191 of 504.

As of today, 7,240 children are missing, with no tracks found by the government.

- Girls, unfortunately, form the bulk of the missing children. More teenage girls are missing as compared to their male counterparts. While the ratio is almost 1:1 in age group of 0-14 years, it jumps to 3:1 in the higher age group.

- Data of missing children reveal that a few of them are kidnapped and pushed into organ or sex trade. Still others leave home to escape emotional and educational pressures, or to live with a person they are in love with. Most toddlers, meanwhile, are kidnapped for illegal adoption.

- Those between three and ten years of age are made to beg or pushed into organ trade, while those above 11 years are lured into flesh trade and what is called in official circles as "sex tourism.

(excerpt from Gujaratlive.org)