UP’s wild west

Bulandshahr, July 4: In a sensational incident of looting that left three dead, the family members of Raj Kishore Sharma (name changed) not only thwarted the attempt of a gang but also managed to snatch away its weapons and shoot back at the robbers. After two men from the gang escaped, police reached the spot, took the bodies in their possession, and asked Sharma to leave. Neither was Sharma interrogated nor was the gang chased.

The investigating officer, on condition of anonymity, said: “The money looted would change hands within an hour and reach Dibhai from where it’s almost impossible to nab the culprit. We are helpless.”

The officer’s helplessness is best described by the crime figures of Bulandshahar district: On an average, the past six months have seen at least two cases of rape, one incident of looting, and seven murders take place on a daily basis.

Take the case of Kavita Rani’s murder. The 37-year-old headman of Dhanera Kirat village in Bulandshahr district, Triloki Singh, was arrested from Delhi along with Ravindra Pradhan, the other accused. Kavita, a lecturer at the Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, was murdered in October last year. She had received threatening letters from Singh. He was also wanted in two other cases. Later, Pradhan admitted that he, along with Singh, had strangulated Kavita and disposed of her body in a canal in Sanauta in Bulandshahr.

In the infamous Nitish Katara case, Vikas and Vishal Yadav had taken Nitish to a location in Bulandshahr and allegedly killed him there. The police had allegedly connived with them. D P Yadav, their father, was said to have “connections” in the district administration. Katara’s body was recovered from a village in the district.

Moreover, Bulandshahr and adjoining rural areas of Greater Noida have had the highest number of honour killings in the state. Official figures suggest that there are 100 villages in the district with history of honour killings. The Indian Express had reported a recent case where a 14-year-old girl was killed for allowing a boy to come into her room.

A senior official of the district, again on condition of anonymity, said: “This district is the crime capital of the state. Even Muzaffarnagar, considered the hub of illegal activities, has an average rate of five murders per day. And all this has picked up ever since Dibhai Assembly seat was won over by Guddu Pandit, the MLA who was arrested in an abduction case last week.

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