CM RAWAT DIRECTS ALL DISTRICT MAGISTRATES TO EXPEDITE VERIFICATION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN UTTARAKHAND AND ASSURES OF MOST STRINGENT PUNISHMENT TO THE CULPRITS OF GANG RAPE N MURDER

Better late than never, but shockingly it took eighteen long years and a very expensive cost of a most gruesome murder after rape of an innocent fourteen year girl in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand for the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat to take a decision which I suppose the previous chief ministers should have taken quite before in order to avoid such most tragic mishappenings which are a blot on our society.

The chief minister tweeted today twice one pertaining to the issuance of an order regarding the verification of all the labourers coming to the state for various works or construction activities and second giving assurance to the inhabitants of Uttarakhand about his unwavering commitment to ensure that the culprits of the most obnoxious gangrape and the diabolical murder would not be spared at any cost n would be accorded the gravest of the punishment.

The tweets of 17th August in Hindi read as: tweet number (1) UTTARKASHI MEIN BACCHI SE DUSHKARM KE BAAD HATYA KI GHATNA NE MERE KO JHAKJHOR KAR RAKH DIYA HAI. HAMAARI DEVBHOOMI MEIN AISE DAANVIYA KRITYON KE LIYE KOI JAGAH NAHI HAI AUR MEIN VISHVAAS DILAATA HUN IS GHATNA KE SABHI DOSHIYON KO KAANOON KE ANTARGAT KATHOR SE KATHOR SAJAA DILAAYI JAYEGI. ( The incident of the murder of the child after rape in Uttarkashi has shaken me from inside. There is no place for such evil practices in our land of abode of Gods and I assure you that the culprits of this incident would get the most stringent punishment).

In the second tweet the chief minister said: SABHI THEKEDAARON AUR KAAM KARNEWAALON KO SUNISHCHIT KARNA HOGA KI VE BAHAR SE AANE VAALE KAAMGAARON LA VERIFICATION KERVA KAR HI KAAM PAR LAAYEIN. SABHI JILADHIKAARIYON KO IS BAABAT SPASHT NIRDESH DIYE JAATE HAIN KI JIN LOGON KA VERIFICATION NAHI HUVA HAI UNKI PEHCHAAN KAR UCHIT KARYAVAHI KAREN. ( All the contractors and those involved in construction work in the state should ensure that all the labourers/ workers should have their proper verification before entering the state. All the district magistrates are hereby informed and directed that all those labourers/ construction workers etc who’s verification has not been done till now should be verified forthwith.

The moot point is after all why does the system expects something bad, inhuman, criminal or uncalled to happen before implementing any order of such nature as is the case now. Has these orders or directives been issued earlier the disastrous situation or incident like the one happened in Uttarkashi could have been avoided or averted.

The government of the day should convene a high level all party meeting in the state an expedite the work of identifying anti social, criminal and suspicious elements active in the state at the decentralised level and also tune up its police department before its too late.

After the formation of Uttarakhand during the last 18 years a good number of such suspicious criminal elements have infilterated in Uttarakhand irrespective of communities and castes, finding it a safe haven for their protection from all ills. What’s your take friends?