Thursday, January 18, 2007

Public is there to be fooled

You and I comprise the ‘public’. And it is evident that we, the public, are being taken for granted by those in the high echelons of power. Moral: we are meant to be fooled. In other words, we deserve that we are fooled time and again.
If we are not being befooled, why is it that the election promises are not being honoured and the parties go to polls every next time? If we are not being befooled, why is that the politicians say something at one time and altogether different thing at other instance? Glaring example: Congress that gave support to Mulayam Singh till a day before citing ‘secular’ reasons withdraws support a shade prior to election, citing ‘secular’ reasons once again. But the most glaring example is undoubtedly the mother of most gruesome of all tales – Nithari. Was it because the Government didn’t want to distribute any more cheques of 5 lakh each (already the State was emptied by a huge amount) that the skeleton digging drive was stopped? Was it because they had no more land to give to the families of sufferers? Or was it that they didn’t want any more adverse publicity (already their image has been much sullied)?
However, those who were saying that it is not Samajwadi Party’s fault if an incident of this nature occurs are finding no cover to hide their faces. Accepted that there was no fault of the Samajwadi Party, but who gave orders to stop further probe, after 19 skeletons were recovered from the drains in Nithari.
Raj Babbar is right when he says that some thing is fishy here as well. Says he: “Now after CBI taking over the investigation, not only more body parts were recovered from there; the investigating team also managed to lay its hands on 40 gunny bags containing human organs.” Latest recoveries clearly indicate that the police attempted to dilute the magnitude of the ghastly incident, Babbar charged.
Moreover, Babbar has charged that a sum of Rs. 3 crore is spent on annual cleaning of drains in Noida. He said: “I have definite information that this exercise has not been undertaken during the last three years but Rs. 9 crore has been shown as spent on this head. The Noida authority too has accepted this fact,” he claimed. Babbar seems to be right here as so many skeletons would not have been thrown overnight.
With more and more bags being recovered, there remains no doubt that Nithari was the case of organ trade and not just individual crime like ‘child-abuse’ or ‘flesh-eating’. If this is so, it cannot be the work of just two persons. Who are the others involved? More importantly, who are those who are shielding them even now? A thorough probe is required.

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