Source : Google photo of criminals behind bars
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Synopsis: A serious
disease requires serious medicine so India is now adopting a new method to
eliminate crime and corruption in the country that is unprecedented but very
effective. The blog looks at the efforts made by the Chief Minister of Uttar
Pradesh who has made fighting crime and corruption his top priority so that the
state can make rapid progress.
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There was a time in India when the criminals felt
omnipotent. They could rape or murder anyone or take over land from someone
forcefully to build illegal structures there. They could kidnap someone for
ransom, they could run illegal business of drugs, prostitution and many such
things. They carried arms openly and used it to kill or threaten people or even
policemen.
The crime mafia flourished everywhere because they paid the
police men and the politicians to look the other way so they had a free run.
They filled the greedy pockets of corrupt people with their illegally earned
money so that they would not take any actions against them.
But never in their criminal life had they ever thought that
a day of reckoning was coming for them that would put them in jail or put them
out of action for good. They never thought that anyone would dare to challenge
them in any way because they felt omnipotent. They even challenged the courts
and the justices and threatened them with death if they dared. It was just like
in Sicily or in New York.
Their criminal activities reaped rich dividends for them so
they became enormously rich that allowed them to hire people who did their
dirty work while they lived in huge mansions with high walls and 24 hour
security. They even pretended to be religious and visited temples, churches or
mosques to show that they were law abiding people who donated some money to
clean up their images but people were not fooled.
Their victims never forgot them although they were helpless because they never got justice for the wrong they were done by the mafia. The raped women cried silently because the policemen did not register their cases.
The farmers whose land was forcibly taken from them never
got it back so they suffered. The business people were so frightened by the
mafia that they meekly paid them the money they demanded. Anyone who defied was
beaten up by the goons or killed. Slowly the whole country was divided up by
the various mafia clans that sprouted like mushrooms everywhere. Each clan
controlled a certain area for their activities and fought with any clan that
encroached on their territory.
The Italian mafia people could have profited from this
franchise that was freely operating in many countries with impunity but they
had their own problems with the Italian authorities that has now started to
prosecute them.
The problem of criminality in India is directly related to
the systemic corruption in the society as such that allows individuals to
profit from it so you will see policemen harassing truck drivers at make shift check
points for money that they are forced to pay. The corrupt police men extort
money from private vehicles as well on trumped up charges of illegal parking,
speeding or any such frivolous issues. I have seen it myself.
The clerk in a government office demands bribe to do his
job and smugly calls it the facilitation fee to your face. The vegetable, meat
or fruit vendor short changes you and gives you less weight so there are all
sorts of corruption everywhere. This happens in any society where people pay
less attention to the morality and honesty and want to get rich using corrupt
practices. The extortion racket starts to operate freely involving the
criminals and the elected politicians as well who see easy money to fill their
coffers because they can operate with impunity. No one dares to bring them to
justice and put them behind bars. Those who try end up dead.
The hard core criminals are seen driven in their luxury
cars accompanied by their well-armed goons so no policeman can give them a
ticket for illegal parking or speeding because they are in their pay. The
situation in India has gotten from bad to worse in some parts.
A well-known criminal in Kanpur was tipped off by the
station police chief who was in his payroll that a raid was about to be
conducted in his villa to capture him so the mafia man put a bull dozer to
block the access to his villa and turned off all lights. His goons then opened
fire on the raiding team of unsuspecting policemen and killed eight of them in
cold blood. They also escaped through a back alley including the mafia don.
So a massive manhunt started and the policemen eventually
caught up with the wanted man in a neighboring state and gunned him down. His
goons were also hunted down and killed in a statewide operation. The bulldozers
razed their houses to the ground. The policeman who had tipped off the mafia
fellow was arrested and is facing trial and long jail term but this is just the
tip of the iceberg.
There are land mafia, coal mafia, drugs mafia, prostitution
mafia, kidnap for ransom mafia and human and animal traffic mafia. There are
child labor and slave labor mafia, illegal logging mafia, illegal animal skins
mafia that decimates the wildlife population of tigers, lions and big cats all
over India.
The weak justice system is partially to blame because even
the judges are threatened if the mafia men are prosecuted. The lawyers who
bring such cases to the court are brave indeed to do so because no one is safe.
So the powerful criminals enjoy the impunity and go about their business
unabated.
Then a very honest man was elected as the chief minister of
the largest state called Uttar Pradesh who declared under oath to put all the
criminals in jail and destroy their ill-gotten properties. He gave the order
that any policeman found guilty of protecting the mafia will be sacked and will
be brought to the court to face trial.
To make the criminals take him seriously he sent the bull
dozers to destroy their villas, hotels, shops and other properties they had
illegally acquired. He sent teams of officers to raid their premises and
discovered millions of Rupees of cash, jewelries and documents that prove the
ownership of properties in different cities and villages and seized them all to
be auctioned off in favor of the state government. He froze their bank accounts
and put in jail the bank officers who had allowed opening and maintaining of
mafia accounts so the criminals were in deep trouble. He has prosecuted the
corrupt government officials who in anyway aided or colluded with the criminals
in exchange for black money.
The sure way to hit a mafia man is to take away all his
money, destroy all his properties and put him in jail for trial in a criminal
court, arrest all his goons and destroy their properties as well. This started
a chain reaction throughout the state so many well established criminals fled
to other states where corruption prevails and where they could buy off the
politicians and the policemen who promised them protection for hefty sums of
money.
The policemen were given order to shoot at sight the goons
to injure them in their legs so that they could be interrogated to find out the
details of their activities, how many others are involved and where to find
them. Many people caught in the police dragnet quickly start to sing like
canaries because of the third degree treatment they often receive. Uttar Pradesh jails have a reputation to uphold.
The chief minister Yogi has given order to prepare the list
of all criminals in all the districts of the state to go after them
systematically. He shows no mercy to anyone who violates the law and promises
swift action against them so hundreds of criminals have started to surrender to
their local police stations carrying a placard on their chest saying “Please
don’t shoot, I surrender “ . Many big time mafia bosses are in jail facing
years of trial but they have no more money to hire expensive lawyers to defend
their cases.
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Source: Google photo of criminals surrendering to the police in India
But what has shaken the big time mafia men to their roots
is the fear of bulldozers coming their way. Their villas are razed to the
ground and their luxury cars are flattened like cardboard boxes by the
bulldozers while a group of drum beaters gleefully add spice to the whole
operation.
The on lookers watch in amazement the destruction of huge
mansions, hotels, malls and such properties of well-known and feared criminals
who now beg for mercy and try to stop the machines but to no avail.
The Chief Minister Yogi has freed thousands of acres of illegally
occupied land so far that he is now using to build the houses for the poor
there. Some land has been returned to the lawful owners who finally saw justice
done to them.
Because of his tremendous popularity due to his zero
tolerance policy toward the criminals and his help to the poor people, Yogi was
reelected for a second term so his bulldozers are again active. His method of
fighting crime and succeeding has caught the attention of the rest of the
country so many chief ministers facing a surge in criminality in their states
are also adopting the bulldozer method of Yogi. Calls are coming from abroad as
well where they want a person like Yogi to solve their problems.
Source
: Google photo of illegal construction being bulldozed in U.P.
Yogi is fighting the crime upsurge on many fronts. When
there is communal violence anywhere, the drones or the videos captured on cell
phones trace and track the perpetrators and identify them so that they can be
arrested. Then the bulldozers are sent to destroy their houses to send a strong
message that throwing stones at the policemen or others of different faith will
not be tolerated.
The courts have ordered that no mosques or temples will be
allowed to disturb others using loudspeakers so thousands of mosques and
temples have voluntarily removed their loudspeakers or have lowered the volume.
Stone pelting on Hindus has stopped due to the fear of
demolition of their houses and communal riots incited by the fanatic mullahs
have stopped altogether.
The anti-romeo squads are now active in all districts that
has put an end to the bad boys who disturb women and young girls with sexual
harassment. When caught in their act, the bad boys are given a thorough beating
on the spot and are asked to beg for forgiveness from the women they were
harassing. Often the enraged women take it upon themselves to teach the bad
boys some manners. Now they feel safer walking home in the evening or night
because help comes their way after a phone call.
More and more females in the police force are being recruited who
are sympathetic to the rape victims so they take prompt action. Recently a man
accused of rape was given a 24 hour ultimatum to surrender or else his house
will be demolished so he came out of his hiding and surrendered.
Now the Modi government has started to work on a national
data base that will record the identity of all bad people, their iris scan,
finger prints and photo graphs so that this data is quickly available to the
policemen anywhere in the country. They are supplied with computers, scanners
and other such equipment so that they can upload their data to the national
data system instantly or share their data with other states where a crime was
committed. This will facilitate the capture and prosecutions of bad people
easily.
The new laws have been enacted to require a National Identification
System for every citizen so that the illegal immigrants who are often found to
be involved in criminal activities are easily spotted and deported. In Uttar
Pradesh, a new anti-terrorism center has been established that tracks the
terror related activities of those who want to create trouble due to their
fanatical hatred of Hindus and others. Such anti-terror centers are being
established in many states that are equipped with the latest technology equipment
to trace, track and record data on terror suspects.
But the problem of crime and corruption in many states
persists where more work is needed to weed out the corrupt people and put them
behind bars. The government sends raiding teams to discover and confiscate
millions of Rupees of illegally gotten wealth stolen by the criminals. This
money and gold jewelries are then used to build housing for the poor people or
other such projects. The bank balances recovered are sent to the national
treasury to rebuild the infrastructure nation wide.
So it takes a brave person like the Chief Minister Yogi to
bring about a fundamental change in his state that has improved the law and
order situation dramatically. Other states are taking notice and have started
to apply the same methods. Now people who are even thinking of doing wrong know
the consequences. Many have surrendered to the authorities and more are doing
so everyday somewhere.
But it will take more than one person to clean up the whole
country so the Modi government is working hard with all the state governments
to solve the issue of crime and corruption together. U.P. is a stellar example
of what can be achieved and replicated nationwide if serious leaders emerge who
think of the country first and their own personal gains the last. Once they
break the evil nexus of the politicians and the criminals, the country as a
whole will make progress and not just in Uttar Pradesh.
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