Police sleeps while the family spends sleepless night

Sakshi Chaturvedi
Published on: 4 Feb 2017 11:25 AM GMT
Police sleeps while the family spends sleepless night
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Police sleeps while a family spends sleepless nights

Lucknow: The criminal element in this Nawabi city are having the best of times mainly due to indifference shown by higher police officials and encouragement given to them by political parties in view of polling in the state which is only a week away.

They have been so emboldened that a senior officer, Mohammad Aslam, working in the secretariat here and his family members have deserted their house and sharing the house of a relative, fearing death at the hands of the goons.

The family has run from the pillar to the post to seek justice and action against them but nothing substantial has been done so far. The usual blame game is on. One officer is blaming the other for the stalemate.

All this is happening despite the fact only a few days ago a murder was committed in the most brutal manner which was highlighted by all the local newspapers. Only one question comes up in mind in this light: are the police men waiting for more such murders to be active?

The family is receiving regular threats from the unlawful elements of dire consequences including murder. However, when the senior police superintendent's office was contacted ,the SSP refused to talk on one pretext of the other.

Backgrounder:

Mohammad Aslam’s house was raided on March 29 last by some criminals and murder attempts were made on some family members. A case was soon registered in a police station against five unidentified persons. No action has been taken against any one so far , though the incident had taken place almost a year ago. Emboldened by inaction, one of the goons made a phone-call recently which was not answered as it was from an unknown number. Several calls were made thereafter. As no one responded a message was sent on one of the family member’s mobilenumber which read,” if you don’t withdraw the case you and your son will be murdered”. The threat was repeated on many occasions. This has scared the entire family.

All concerned have been informed about the incident. But none has taken any action. This is rather surprising because the present government claims to be a messiah for the Muslim community.

Sakshi Chaturvedi

Sakshi Chaturvedi

A journalist, presently working as a Sub-Editor at newstrack.com.

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