tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68948771034801694632024-02-19T17:50:23.734-08:00Sreelekha IPSSreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-82228080814452316832020-02-05T23:59:00.003-08:002020-02-05T23:59:46.967-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">29.01.2020 around 11.45 AM. The place was my office, the
Transport Commissionerate. I was having a comparatively relaxed day. The police
officer on duty at my office announced that an elderly man has come to visit me
and that he introduced himself as my father’s student. I got excited since I
have the habit of developing an immense liking to anyone who said or says that
he/she knew my father whom I lost when I was sixteen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I think it would be appropriate to tell you about my father,
late Professor N Velayudhan Nair who expired suddenly of myocardial attack at
the age of 55 on 11.11.1977. A day I, my mother and siblings will never forget.
He had gone with my eldest sister to admit her for MBBS at the Trivandrum Medical
College. What started as a happy and proud day suddenly became dark and bleak
in the evening and continued as such for years after. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Born to a farmer, his mother and elder siblings blamed him
throughout childhood as a person born under dark stars since his father expired
before he turned 1. Struggling throughout his youth, he passed matriculation
with high marks and went to Bombay where his elder brother worked, to search
for a job. He studied typing and shorthand within months from an Institute
there. Massive army recruitment for young people was going on in full swing at
Bombay that time; he attended it for fun and got promptly selected. He was just
15 then. The British were ruling India at that time and freedom struggle was at
its peak. From 1936 to 1948 he served the country under the British rule struggling
for freedom till a year after India’s proud independence. During the end of Second
World War at the Indo-Chinese border he got a bullet injury on his leg and lost
his hearing after falling into a deep trench. Since the injury left him
incapable of continuing the service, he took retirement and returned home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thereafter he studied History in BA-honors at Kerala
University and passed the course with first rank. He immediately got job as
lecturer of History at Arts College, Trivandrum. The gold medal he got from the
University was our family’s proudest possession till 2001 when a thief broke
into our ancestral house and stole everything including this medal. In 1952 he
married Radha, the third daughter of Dr. E. K. Raman Pillai, a famous surgeon
who did FRCS from England. I am their third daughter. When I was 10, a son was
born to my parents much to everyone’s delight. My brother was just 5 when achan
passed away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I remember achan saying often that his greatest assets were
his daughters. He was quite proud of us. Though he wanted my eldest sister
Geetha, who is still the brightest and most studious in the family to write
Civil Services Examinations, he consented to her wish to become a doctor like
her maternal grandfather. Achan worked a long time in Colleges outside
Trivandrum and came home only once in a while. After I passed 10<sup>th</sup>
(SSLC) barely missing first class, I applied for pre-degree at Women’s College
for third group and joined the third group since my ambition at that time was
to become a professor like achan. Knowing about it, he came from Edappal where
he was working then and forcefully changed me to second (Science) group telling
me that I should become a doctor! In the astrological chart drawn up when I was
born, it was prophesied that I would become a reputed physician in future! I
was doing my miserable second year of science pre-degree when father expired. My
two elder sisters and brother became doctors. Though I had taken a vow at my
father’s funeral to study well and become a doctor like he wished, my marks
were abysmal enough for MBBS (there were no entrance exams then) that I happily
joined for BA English to pursue my childhood dream. I thought achan would be as
happy to see me as a lecturer too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, back to the main story. Mr. G. Shivasubramnia Sharma, the
elderly person who sat in front of me was all smiles and seemed excited. “Velayudhan
Nair sir taught world history when I was in Arts College doing pre-university
studies. He was such an amazing teacher that history became one of our most
favourite subjects. I used to sit in the front bench and listen keenly to the
classes which he would teach like stories. It was like watching films or
dramas. He would draw us into historic events like French Revolution and World
War and create role plays for the students. We would be Louis the fourteenth, Hitler,
Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the great etc and he would ask us what we would
do in situations they were faced with.” He was telling me as I sat amazed,
listening to him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I got grade B in first year for history. Sir asked me to
improve the grade to A the next year and also advised me to read English
newspapers to improve my English. I told him my helplessness. I was born into a
poor Brahmin family with many mouths to feed and on days our only food would be
the Prasad from the Padmanabhaswamy temple near to the hut we all lived.
Getting even a paisa was difficult for a boy of my age that time, how could I
read newspapers? He smiled and gave me a 50 paisa coin saying, ‘go to Chala
market. Buy old English newspapers with this money from the scrap store there
and read them. Once you finish, take them to the same shop and exchange it with
other papers. Continue to read like that till your English becomes good’. What
a great idea! I needed to improve my English, not General Knowledge, so old
papers were fine for that! I heeded to that advice and my English became very
good in a year. I got excellent marks for final year and got admission at both
Medical College and Engineering College for my graduation. I opted for
Engineering since I had no money to pay the hefty tuition fee for MBBS.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Oh, very interesting! Thanks a lot for coming here and
telling me all this. I am very happy to hear this, but surprised why you did
not come to me before. I’m an IPS officer here since past 33 years and you
should have come any day prior to today…” I started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Wait, wait, I haven’t finished. There is a reason why I came
today. I went to Velayudhan Nair sir for autograph after the course, which was
a popular practice those days. He wrote two lines in a page of my autograph and
signed it. I found those lines to be poetic and with deep meaning and asked
whether it was his lines. He replied, ‘no, it was written by someone very
famous. Find it out. I know that the CET has a good library. Or join Public
library with student card. And start reading as a hobby. Once you find out who
wrote it, come and tell me’. I started reading books in earnest since then.
After my engineering degree, I got employment at KSEB. Within a year I got so
fed up of the corruption there that I wrote UPSC exams and got appointed in All
India Radio. I could clear UPSC easily since my English was quite excellent by
then. Before going out of Kerala to work for AIR, I went to see sir again. ‘Please
tell me who wrote those lines, sir. I have been continuously reading for 6
years now but could not find out the author of those lines yet.’ I had the
habit of writing down excerpts from the books I read in a note book so I showed
the book to him. He was impressed, but shaking his head, gave the same reply. ‘Continue
reading. Find out and come to me.’ I was determined to find out who wrote those
lines by the next time I meet him.” He paused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He took out a huge book from his bag and showed me pages
after pages of lines written with different colour inks and quotes from every
book he had read in his life, with dates, name of book and author and important
sentences from each book. He had beautiful handwriting, I noticed. “I have
several books filled up like this. I have been reading for over 62 years now. I
am happy to say that in my life, the most happy and enjoyable times were those
spent reading. The autograph was written in 1957 by sir when I was just 16. Now
I am past 78 years old.” He gave a sigh and a smile and said with pride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I found who wrote those lines in the autograph just a few
days back. I got so excited and wanted to tell Velayudhan Nair sir so
immediately. But I could not, so I enquired, came to know that his daughter is
now a DGP rank officer, called your office to check up if you were free and
came over.” He delved into his bag as I sat with my mouth open.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Those times, there were no computers for searching so I had
no option but to read till I found the author. I could have searched ‘google’ anytime
recently but that would have been cheating. Sir asked me to read, I enjoyed
reading so I continued to read.” He took out a tattered sheet of paper. I
eagerly took it thinking it was my father’s hand writing. It wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I lost that autograph somewhere down the lane. I worked in
Oman for a long time on deputation and at AIR, I was out of Kerala mostly.
After retirement I have got a home in Vattiyurkkavu, but we travel a lot to be
with my sons and daughter. I never forgot those lines, so I wrote them down
once I realized that the autograph is lost.” He extended the paper towards me.
Before I read the lines trying to find out if I knew who wrote them, he said in
an excited tone, “Marcus Aurelius! It was he who wrote these!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Though an avid reader myself, I haven’t read any books of
Marcus Aurelius, so I wouldn’t have known also. He continued, “I had this urge
to tell sir that I found out the author, you know? This uncontrollable urge? Since
sir is no more, I’m happy telling his daughter instead.” His eyes glistened. I
too felt tears biting my eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Achan died 42 years back, but I still feel him very near me.
I will tell him for sure, he will be happy to know this. And he will be proud
of his favourite student. Thanks a lot, sir.” I told him as I handed back the
paper for which he had his hands extended. Relieved, he laughed like a child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Actually, I may see him before you do; I’m old and full of diseases.
Still, I wanted to tell you, that was why I came.” He looked at the tea which my
staff had placed before him a few minutes after he came in and which had gotten
cold and forgotten. “I will come to see your mother one day. Don’t want to take
anymore of your time.” He got up and slowly walked out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a rush of emotions, I sat frozen staring at the lines I
hurriedly wrote down before giving the paper back to him, in deep thought.
Achan was just 34 or 35 years old when he wrote these lines. How much of a
scholar he was even at that age! Mr Sharma is so lucky to have enjoyed hours
after hours of classes and close proximity with him! I suddenly realized that I
had forgotten to ask for his phone numbers or address! I should have at least
taken a selfie with him. But those autograph lines and his story had swept my
mind away to some other distant and beautiful place far, far away from my
mundane office. I re-read those lines conveying precious layers of meaning
albeit scribbled in my lousy handwriting- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Very little is needed to make a happy life:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u><span style="line-height: 115%;">Queen Harish, Balabhaskar- Great lives that our roads stole from
us…</span></u></b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In February 2018, I visited Jodhpur,
Udaipur and Jaisalmer for a week with my husband, on holiday. The entire trip
was extremely wonderful and we carried home a bundle of precious memories and
experiences, thanks to the amazing organizational skills of my dear friend and
batch mate in Rajasthan- Rajiv Dasot. The weather was beautiful, roads were
wide, food was delicious and stays at the various guest houses and police
messes were comfortable. </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One of the best experiences we had
was a trip to the desert at Jaisalmer where we rode a running camel over sand
dunes to watch sunset and I flew on a hanger over the sand against the setting
sun, red tinted skies, over unlimited sand hills and over the beautiful desert
resort “Desert Springs” where we had dinner. Accompanying the dinner was a show by one Queen Harish and party. Thanks are due to Amit
Lodha, the very smart IG then posted at BSF in Jaisalmer who is also an
acclaimed author of the bestselling novel ‘Bihar Diaries’ who had made this
arrangement for us. He commented, “It will be lucky if there is a show by Queen
Harish along with dinner, you will enjoy that tremendously. But usually he is very busy performing at
various places within and outside the country.” We had not heard of this person
before so it didn’t mean much to us then.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As we sat on a table facing a podium
in the open air enjoying our drinks, a few people arrived and started to play
on musical instruments, mostly percussion ones. It was just some usual north
Indian music, typically of Rajasthan. After around 15 minutes a few women dressed
in dancing robes swayed in. One among them was exceptionally pretty. She was
tall and very slim, extremely fair with long plaited hair. She was wearing
highly decorated long skirt, blouse and a guilt covered long shawl over her
head. Glittering jewellery adorned her neck, ears and arms. She was also
wearing hip chains and anklets. She danced with extreme grace; her body swaying
elegantly to the drums which were beating fast. Her smile was radiant and
expressions beautiful. Suddenly, the aura changed magically from dullness to a quick
brightness quite akin to a show of fireworks. I realized that it was her who
transformed the sight so delightfully that we espied. Once the music and dance
subsided she took a mike and started to speak. I froze.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGff_zmzPNrwGTpwdDD_xNNopVITneAwdvsX2TKMX1e1LOgPz-le9ulagB1CTpniAx8Ah9_ZVyg1gCJbxhjDAuFK2gaElHNHvICI12emqXmM8EAENmL5mxPAROFmQwhpOSpmN7LhvxxDU/s1600/20180207_205245.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="470" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGff_zmzPNrwGTpwdDD_xNNopVITneAwdvsX2TKMX1e1LOgPz-le9ulagB1CTpniAx8Ah9_ZVyg1gCJbxhjDAuFK2gaElHNHvICI12emqXmM8EAENmL5mxPAROFmQwhpOSpmN7LhvxxDU/s320/20180207_205245.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It was not a woman’s voice. Though
the voice was masked to sound like a shy yet naughty woman’s tone, the
manliness in its lilt was hard to mask. Still I did not doubt the gender of the
person. I just felt disappointed that such a pretty lady had this harsh voice.
She spoke in Hindi welcoming us and briefly giving an idea what she and her
team will be doing to entertain us. I whispered to my husband, “Is this a
transgender person?” “Does it matter? Just enjoy the show.” He whispered
back. So I relaxed and enjoyed the beautiful
spectacle for over two hours. In between when she/he left the stage, dullness
pervaded which dissipated when she/he came back in different attire. Dancing
with knives, fire, swirling around us, pulling us into the orgy, quizzing us,
telling stories about her/his various tours and shows, he took each </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZhikZRvPyV6oIBN6ewJ5vOtWZeBzcInvJCKPfqdkmdbAZQTv7m8sM9HoBdEd8CkAU3q7p7JGZSUFCZ7QodhLBy4ygCUPYlmq3kL08v5l-Qr9rUKqCA9yPsaaqLeAhii_3q4YVOipWfVI/s1600/20180207_205253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="470" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZhikZRvPyV6oIBN6ewJ5vOtWZeBzcInvJCKPfqdkmdbAZQTv7m8sM9HoBdEd8CkAU3q7p7JGZSUFCZ7QodhLBy4ygCUPYlmq3kL08v5l-Qr9rUKqCA9yPsaaqLeAhii_3q4YVOipWfVI/s320/20180207_205253.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">of the
guests into a charming sphere of dance and music. Even my stiff husband danced
with the crowd. In between we delved into the menu of delectable spread of food
which Queen Harish claimed ‘made with own hands’.</span></span></span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Recently I sat shocked holding the
newspaper in my hands reading the news of the death of Queen Harish and another
4 members of his team in a road accident. I saw the photo of a young man as
well as another picture of him in dance robes. A man! His grace in dancing was
such that he could excel only in women’s garbs. His beauty was such that it
would have wasted had he performed a ‘thandav’ or a ‘break dance’ a-la-Michael
Jackson style. What a waste of supreme
talent! I felt the same pain of reading about the accidental death of a maestro
of God’s own country Kerala, of the famous violinist Balabhaskar and his cute two
year old daughter, again in a car crash. True, the roads are cruel. They cause
plenty of premature deaths. But what really cause such accidents? There are
several factors including mechanical defects, over-speeding, rash and negligent
driving and driving while tired and sleepy. We may ponder for hours on end about
the reasons why so many people lose their lives on the road. Automobiles are a
great invention. Good roads are the mark of urbanization and development. It
saves us so much time while helping us to reach various places easily and
effortlessly. Whatever and however much the law enforcement does to prevent
accidents and permeate awareness on safe commuting, whatever be the extent of penalty
that is imposed, not a day goes by without loss of several innocent lives on
our roads.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I fondly remember Balabhaskar, the artist
with a boy’s demeanor who shared the dais with me at a function in All Saint’s
College, Trivandrum. His stunning smile, the stars in his eyes, the shy way he
talked to me about his wife and the love marriage at a young age. I remember
the way he played on the violin on stage- both classical and fusion music,
transforming his whole personality into a beautiful musical note. It was
mesmerizing to watch him move along with the waves he created on his
instrument, the facial expressions merging into a melody hitherto unexpressed.
That smile which resonated with the strings, the way his head moved and the way
he took the audience to an ethereal arena of sweet melody! It is a great, great
loss for us, the music lovers. I also saw the only film in which he acted with
Meera Jasmine wondering how a musical genius can be a good actor too!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><img alt="Image result for balabhaskar" class="rg_ic rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJx2cleoPUfIhAY6C6wQhuNijQkmjP0Kors5LSdOBb02cWGT7a" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJx2cleoPUfIhAY6C6wQhuNijQkmjP0Kors5LSdOBb02cWGT7a" style="height: 167px; margin-left: -13px; margin-right: -5px; margin-top: 9px; width: 301px;" /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Adieu
Balabhaskar. Adieu Queen Harish. Rest in eternal peace! I know both of you must
be enjoying the for-ever-party in heaven dancing and singing with the Gods and
angels now. I only wish that people, at least in your memories would be more
careful in future while on the roads.</span></span></div>
Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-19268906975156856032019-02-14T22:49:00.001-08:002019-02-14T22:49:11.590-08:00Kerala’s First Lady IPS Officer | R. Sreelekha | TEDxManipalUniversityJa...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OswaMyBZEyA" width="480"></iframe>Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-48150984801670293452019-02-14T22:34:00.000-08:002019-02-14T22:34:01.753-08:00THE OTHER SIDE OF CRIME -7<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<u><i><b>THE OTHER SIDE OF CRIME-7</b></i></u></h2>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Every coin has got two sides. </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>The
stories the convicted female prisoners told about the reasons and causes for
committing the crimes, their experiences in prison, the
lessons learnt, their hopes and expectations- form the crux of these articles.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>I am sharing the stories they told me in first person. It is just their version of
the crime, their side of the story. May be they are true, may be false. I
leave it to the readers to decide. </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Happy reading! </i></span></h3>
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<i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her letter destroyed my
life…</span></u></i><br />
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am a girl who underwent the cruel
punishment of jail imprisonment for three years without doing any crime
whatsoever in my life. I was destined to go through this horrible experience
because of a letter written by my heartless sister- my elder brother’s wife.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was studying for BEd aiming towards
my wish to be a school teacher when I got arrested by police. My parents were
teachers too. My handsome elder brother was running a margin free super market
in town. He married a girl who frequented that shop with the apparent reason of
shopping, but hidden wish to make my brother fall in love with her. She got
smitten by him at first sight itself. But he was not too keen to marry her. Though
from a very rich family, she was modern and stylish and my brother rather liked
to marry a simple village girl. When the pressure was mounting from both the
girl’s and our family for this alliance, my brother told me, “I’d have been
happy if she was like you. She told me that if I do not agree to marry me, she
would commit suicide. I don’t like girls who threaten me.” But I too asked him
to say yes. “But she loves you madly. Isn’t that reason enough to marry her?” I
reasoned.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My poor brother believed that
everything will be okay after the wedding. She was born in a Gulf country, did
her entire schooling there, she is more in tune with the western ways of
dressing, behaving and talking. She was bold and independent. I thought these
were admirable qualities in a woman. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first few months after marriage
went off happily for my brother and my new sister. Slowly disturbances
surfaced. She was insisting on shifting residence from the ancestral home and
stay at a rented accommodation in town, near to her husband’s shop and her
parent’s house. My brother who was very much attached to his parents refused it
right away. Then she openly disallowed us to get into the car if we were
planning to go some place. “This car was given by my father. I want only my
husband and me to travel in it.” She said rather rudely when an excited mother
sat on the front seat to go to the temple as requested by my brother. She had
to get out shame facedly. This was disgusting for us. My sister in law did not
know driving, but would ask my brother to take her out every day in the car for
movies, for shopping or to the beauty parlour. In addition to all this, she
refused to get into the kitchen and cook any food. She showed no interest to
learn or do any house-hold work and expected everything to be done either by my
mother or me. And when she fought with my brother, she would go to the extremes
and say very rude things about all of us. Sometimes, I used to wonder if she
was normal because she would talk about death at the drop of a hat! All her
sentences would end with “I’m going to die.” “I will commit suicide.” “I’m
going to slash my wrist.” “I will hang myself.” Though these were routine
threats it really scared us, particularly my parents. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My brother was quite fed up after a
few months that he extended his shop timings, sometimes even beyond midnight.
While he was staying as far away as he wished from her, she directed her
frustration and anger towards me most of the time. When relationships go bad, it
is natural to use bad words about others. She used to call me a lot of names.
But what I could not tolerate was her using bad words about my brother. “Why is
he staying away from me? Stray dog! He is taking revenge up on me. I told him
about my affair on the first night. So now, he is having affairs with other
women to punish me. That is why he never comes home in time. Lecher! I will
show him!” She shouted one day to me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“It is not because he is having
affairs with other women that he does not come home in time, it is because of
you! You are such a pain in the neck that he is comfortable being away from
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why don’t you give him some peace?”
I shouted back at her. But her revelation that she had an affair with a boy was
appalling. My brother never revealed it to us. When my mother asked him he
admitted that she told him all that. She had eloped with her boyfriend while
she was in school and it was the police who brought her back to her parents.
She had to be subjected to psychological counselling after that. Horrified, my
parents suggested my brother to get divorce. It was too intolerable to them.
But my sister in law refused. “I will not leave him. You cannot chase me away. He
is my husband. This is my home.” She said with finality. Ignoring her, my
brother went to an advocate and engaged him to file a divorce case at the family
court.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And then that day came. I had my
exams that day. Since it was our grandfather’s death anniversary, father had
gone to the temple for doing the rites. My mother was bedridden with high
fever. As usual, my sister in law was causing a huge ruckus for silly reasons at
home from the early morning itself that I couldn’t study. “Couldn’t you just
shut up? Why are you always so loud?” I went to her and asked, “Don’t you know
I have exams today? Or are you making all this knowing that? To purposefully disturb
me?” I was at the edge of my wits. She did not like my tone and started to
shower abuses at me. That made my brother also loose temper. He gave her a slap
to quieten her. It was the first time he was getting really angry at her.
Howling, she went to her room and slammed the door. After some time my brother
went to the shop and I went to the college. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I got back home after the exam I
was told the shocking news. My brother who got a phone call from the neighbours
by 1 PM rushed home to find smoke coming from the kitchen of the house. He
found his wife unconscious on the kitchen floor with severe burn injuries and
his mother too with burns all over her body. He rushed them to the hospital. My
sister in law sustained over 70% burn injuries and mother who tried to douse
the fire and save her daughter in law also got burns as her dress caught fire.
After a few days of treatment in the hospital, my sister in law succumbed to
her injuries. Another distressing thing that came to light was that she was 4
months pregnant! My brother vouched that she did not tell him about the
pregnancy. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The father of my sister in law gave
complaint to the police that his daughter’s death was not an accident, but planned
murder. In his plaint, he said that the gas stove was turned on intentionally
so that she could get burned and killed while she attempted to cook in the
kitchen. He further wrote that his naive daughter was harassed for dowry by my
brother and his parents. As proof he gave some letters she wrote to her parents
which all mentioned the harassment she was subjected to at our place. In one particular
letter she had written- “My husband’s sister is the worst. She threatened to
kill me by opening the gas stove in the kitchen and burning me alive. If at all
I die, please know that it was her doing.” And that was her last letter to her
parents!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We never knew about these lies in her
letters until the police came home to arrest me and my brother. They lifted my
finger prints from the gas stove and the cylinder. They said that before going to
college, I went to the kitchen and kept the gas cylinder and stove opened,
knowing that mother who was laid up will not go to the kitchen and if my sister
in law goes and try to cook something, she would die. They did not accept my honest
statement that I never went to the kitchen at all that day. We were ignorant
about law and legal matters and never expected them to arrest us. But
thankfully, the police spared my aged parents. I think that my sister in law’s
rich parents influenced the police to make out this false case against us. Both
my brother and I were remanded in jail for two weeks after the arrest, after
which my father got an advocate to take us out on bail. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My life crumbled to pieces around my
feet. I felt totally destroyed. I could not complete my studies; a marriage
alliance which was more or less fixed was withdrawn. I don’t blame them, who
would marry a jail bird? I believe my mother’s version that sister in law’s burn
injuries were purely accidental. Around 12 noon that day, she went to my
mother’s room claiming that she was hungry. When my mother started to get up to
make some lunch, she refused it and went to the kitchen saying, “No, no. I
don’t want you to cook my food. What if you poison me?” After a few minutes of
unsuccessful attempts, my mother heard her come out and call someone on her
phone. She talked for a long time and then went back to the kitchen. Her
screams and the fire followed soon after. She must have kept the stove open
unknowingly which caused the accident. My mother switched it off and poured
water on her daughter in law attempting to save her.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After almost a year, we got convicted
in trial for dowry death. In between, my father got paralysis and was
bedridden. Unfortunately our advocate could not plead for us effectively. He
later told someone that he was not paid enough and hence he was not very
serious about the case! Anyway, I got 5 years and my brother, seven years of
imprisonment in the court verdict. Another lawyer was engaged by my father to
file appeal in the High Court. But that went on for a long time since my sick
father could not personally go after the case. My mother changed the lawyer
after two years and sold off part of the property to pay him. We got paroles
after a year. What I could not tolerate was not going back to jail once our
paroles got over, but my mother’s anguished weeping when we left. It broke my
heart every time and I would curse that my sister in law’s soul should rot
eternally in hell. What else could I do? Then another misery happened. My
father expired without seeing his innocent children abdicated from the wrong
charges against them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ultimately the High Court issued
orders on our appeal petition saying that my imprisonment shall be terminated
with immediate effect, but my brother will have to continue his full term of
imprisonment! Now I am back at home taking care of my old and sick mother while
my brother continues to undergo his unjust punishment. I tried my luck at my
brother’s margin free shop by opening it for a few days after my release, but
even after a week, not a single person came to buy anything from there. So now
it remains closed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Society had branded me as a murderer.
Totally innocent I am, as long as it remains imprinted here, I will have to suffer
this stigma and continue my insignificant and meaningless life on this cruel
earth!</span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Anakkulam</span> (Elephant pond)and <span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white;">Meeshappulimala</span></span> (Hill of the mustached leopard), Idukki- amazing experiences </span></u></i></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From 24th to 26th January 2019- I along with my husband and son went to two lovely places in God's own Country, 'Anakkulam' and 'Meeshappulimala' in Idukki District to celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary. We had been to Munnar several times before and places like 'Muniyara' (Caves of the rishis) near Marayur had enthralled me with its wonder and beauty, but it was the first time that I was hearing of these 2 places, Anakkulam- means the pond of Elephants and Meeshappulimala, means the mountain of whiskered tigers. Both names are associated with wild animals and being a nature lover, I opted to go and visit these two places over the other suggestions that came up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #741b47;">ANAKKULAM</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We started from Kochi on 24th morning and reached Mankulam, a place around 18 kilometers ahead of Munnar. We have to go a little interior from 'Kallar', a major junction en-route Munnar. The home stays and resorts are located at Mankulam. We stayed at a beautiful resort named "Heaven Valley" at Mankulam. From there we went in the evening to Anakkulam. The time to visit this place is after 5.30 every evening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"If you are lucky, you will see the elephants. They don't come out every day though. During my last trip with guests, we waited for 4 hours till 9.30 PM and no elephants came, so the guests had to go back disappointed," Jomon, one of the resort owners told us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Oh, don't worry. I am lucky," I replied, feeling very optimistic about glimpsing some wild elephants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We set out from the resort by 5 PM and reached the place in 40 minutes. The ride was bumpy. On reaching Anakkulam, a shallow and narrow stream with plenty of rocks and boulders jutting out of it confronted us, bordering the forest across a large ground in which a volley ball court was roughly set up. A very bad idea to have a volley ball court there, it sort of marred the natural beauty, I thought. On the border of the ground and the road, a concrete half wall stretched along till the stream disappeared into the forest. I saw electric fencing on one side, probably to prevent the wild animals from trespassing into human settlement areas. There was a lot of elephant poo on the grounds and even on the roads which appeared fresh. So, there will be elephants today too, I felt hopeful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Sometimes, they come up to the road. A week back, they came till that shop." A local man replied to my query. When I asked him about the electric fence he said that there are banana cultivation on that side and elephants love to destroy banana plantations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We climbed down some steps to the ground and walked towards the stream. I saw some bubbles coming out and bursting on the surface of the stream. Jomon, who accompanied us from Heaven Valley said, "There are some underground minerals in this area. The water is a little warm, sweet and salty to taste </span><span style="font-size: large;">here</span><span style="font-size: large;">. Elephants love the flavors and these minerals have medicinal properties too. That is why they come in huge groups." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img aria-label="Photo - Landscape - Jan 24, 2019, 5:34:05 PM" class="SzDcob" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5yESSOuEf-kIHIZXbXLs2iV5Fvs_5KhGB53MrnolwX15TaCBt8XqDSwOjT2ivCfqVZJGN-tfhVBD1SSv2heLrNg9M30MscEmF0MnVx0hIMcMhI1jtK6C0UekGHLOdmqip5gw98O1HWqI/w1874-h911-no/" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px) rotate(0deg);" width="640" /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><img aria-label="Photo - Landscape - Jan 24, 2019, 5:34:14 PM" class="SzDcob" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi350MCY4XWiDSlfwoySGM-YtI9gYYZVPydpGto_0BOa0HxaQbhyphenhyphenntKyWjBzFopvoiOEnZuMHgv4oCwVQDrYN9JryavXvEsZOpPD-3Wv2FdlU2V2CdT9HOqvOlLaXfZE7FXPJzRdsvR0bs/w1874-h911-no/" width="640" /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We saw some ducks on the side of the stream too. When we walked towards them, they got into the water and swam off. There was a special charm in the place and the water, when we took it in our hands was indeed warm. We dared not to taste it though!</span><br />
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stayed by the bank of the stream, enjoying the cool wind and ambience
for sometime. Knowing that people are not generally allowed to be there at that time of the day, we went back to the road. On one side was a small tea
shop from where we ordered coffee and cakes. A girl in school uniform took Rs 100 more than the bill amount from us, which Jomon brought us back later. The time was past 6 PM when we went
back and sat on the parapet facing the ground and stream beyond. "I
hope they come before sun set. The pictures will not be good if clicked
in the dark." I mused. "Don't worry, there are lights in the area. You
can still see them clearly after dark," Jomon pointed out the high mast
lights on the road side. A few local people had gathered on our sides by
then. Two vehicles full of guests too landed near where we were
sitting. Then a full jeep of tourists too came later.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Elephants
do not go to the water if there are ducks there. They are scared of the
white color. Last time, a crane landed on the water while some
elephants were drinking water. They panicked and scattered to all sides." An
old man standing beside me commented. "The ducks need to get out of
water." He repeated.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img aria-label="Photo - Landscape - Jan 24, 2019, 5:30:19 PM" class="SzDcob" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcq5hDhGskZH6iNDqCPLry-EBRwms_0i4stvnkmkKVUjUfSFTQI6kJuRrk5McA3xu6tTXPVV9t-ONlYFK7iHbmSfQK17fN5QgNJ2Mu0sHLtgIglt4YbyZknnYXaiVWVGhsWrZ_pkb870g/w1874-h911-no/" width="640" /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It was past 6.30 PM when we saw the first elephant come out of the forest. Excitement mounted all around us, shrill voices rose. "Look, here they come! Chase off those ducks! See, there is a herd! Baby elephants too! Look, look!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After some slow deliberations, pushing at each other and observing the surroundings, they began to walk towards the water. From the bushes poured out elephant after elephant that after a few I lost count. I think there were more than thirty elephants!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img aria-label="Photo - Landscape - Jan 24, 2019, 6:37:06 PM" class="SzDcob" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilT5QXylcm_mF-0U2HRnCLZ1OvjjjljNzJpltlFISnmN-zaRypZlo7X8E-2xFOix_nJQ8fE4q1E5jYKnv422iCyueyOu4_0v9VeJwsMZRNKGo6KY9WkisKefMpZLzp4GXetQmTpEVGNK8/w534-h260-no/" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px) rotate(0deg);" width="640" /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We gazed at the scene in wonder. They were of a lighter shade than those I have seen so far. Even after some of them immersed themselves fully into the water, they came out in a brown shade. However a few black elephants came from the forest later on, but they were not allowed to come anywhere near the water by the brown ones. The ducks were still there are the elephants appeared least bothered. There were very tiny baby elephants in the group which were being fed by their mothers, but I could not see any male tuskers. It was interesting to see how they put their trunks straight into the water base as if to suck out the minerals from the bed of the stream. All of them closed their eyes in ecstasy as they drank the water, it must be very tasty to them! One baby started playing in the water and fell on one side with a whoop. It was mesmerizing to watch it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We spent over an hour clicking pictures and shooting videos and soon it became dark. When the sun set, the high mast lights came on, but it did not illuminate the stream. The elephants continued to drink and play unabated. "This stream is their Beverage Corporation," said the local old man in the crowd. All of us laughed. I looked up at the lights which shone on the people rather than on the elephants and wondered whether it was installed to inform the elephants that humans are still around. When finally we were ready to leave, the old local man had already left, probably to find his own Beverages! On the ride back, we couldn't stop talking about this amazing experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>MEESHAPPULIMALA</b></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next day morning after breakfast we proceeded to Munnar. Since our rooms at the Rhodo Mansion at Meeshappulimala will be available only after 2 PM, we thought of seeing the Botanical gardens and having lunch from somewhere there before further journey. As usual, the garden and flowers were a feast to the eye. I purchased Kerala Sandal soaps and tea from the garden shop. We had lunch at Silvertips hotel which was themed after the Indian/International Cinema. There was a wild/forest movie festival going on there. The lunch was okay, but the hotel itself was something different. The rooms are named after famous movies and on our request, a room named Sholay was opened for us to see. Huge posters of the film Sholay decorated the walls. I saw the bed runner shaped after a film reel, but other than that, I did not find any train, jail, dessert themes or Sholay style furniture in the room. We walked around the corridors and clicked a few pictures. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We started from Munnar around 1.30 PM and reached the base camp of Silent Valley by 3.15 PM. We halted here for tea and biscuits and walked around the tents feeling excited about the impending trek. It was a beautiful place with multi colored tents hitched up all around the valley, surrounded by ponds full of water lilies and lovely flower bearing plants around the area.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img aria-label="Photo - Landscape - Jan 25, 2019, 2:57:58 PM" class="SzDcob" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTO2lpJPU1iNTWwt0Bfy1puxG3_impG6Gq-LIOh1eS-75qROGMytmdYja2Aj1yGcdAaSDEkqC382_Ek-dY2tp3s3343FUOZ9TcXhfr8Bx1HphOGYqJbWDZikQC-mkKqYAZHT_vfk8zWg/w1874-h911-no/" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px) rotate(0deg);" width="640" /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We could have spent an entire day at the place, but soon it was time to go to the Rhodo Mansion, which is at around 8300 feet above sea level on Meeshappulimala.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It took another hour to get to the Rhodo valley and to the Mansion. The building, belonging to Kerala Forest Development Corporation was openeded in 2013 with eight rooms. The temperature had dropped to around 4 degrees and there was a chilly wind nipping at us. An officer of Forest Department, Sanid accompanied us from Munnar, explaining the scenery around. At the Mansion, another officer, Jithin was detailed to take us for the trek. "Usually, we start in the early morning by around 5.45. Then we can see the sunrise at the mountain top. We return to reach back by 10 AM for breakfast." He said. "But if you want to see sunset now, there is a place 400 meters from here. We need to start only after 5.30 PM." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We relaxed, sat on the benches outside and walked around having hot black coffee till the time came to climb up to the sunset point. There was a small pretty metal bridge at the starting point of the trek. Exactly at 5.30, Jithin came and bade us to follow. We started our climb. I was amazed to find the pretty and colorful flowers on both sides of the path. Bright gold flowers tipped silver haired stems of a shrub, magenta flowers danced on long stems of another plant, tiny bright white flowers with yellow centers abounded and a shrub sprouted wine red flowers. "Oh, they planted a beautiful garden around the walk way here. See?" I was excited to see such beauty and bright, lively colors. Jithin stared at me as if I was crazy and replied in a cold tone, "They are wild ones, madam." I couldn't believe it. But such is nature's bounty! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On the way we saw a few people coming down, panting and holding huge walking sticks. "Do these sticks help?" I asked. The climb up was pretty steep, but nothing I couldn't handle. I was finding it very exciting. "Oh yes," the man replied, "</span><span style="font-size: large;">Even bett</span><span style="font-size: large;">er to carry two sticks." He grinned and I thought he was making fun of us. After this however, my husband promptly accepted the stick offered by Aneesh, our driver. At the sunset point a scene of absolute beauty greeted us. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I sat down with my son on a rock overlooking a steep mountain side and watched the sky, distant snowy hills and the butterflies around us. My husband walked around, clicking pictures. After some time, I lay down on the ground, looking up at the sky and feeling the earth with my hands. When I saw some others joining us, I stood up. They identified me and wanted some selfies with me! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">After sun set, we walked down, back to the Rhodo Mansions. My son was playing music on his iphone which was so befitting with the beauty around us. "Tomorrow morning, we start at 5.45 AM," Jithin reminded us as we came back to the base. When darkness spread around us, the weather dropped to minus two degrees. We saw smoke rising up from the area near the dining hall. "We have lit a fire. Do come & sit near it," said the care taker of the place. There is a steep walk down to the dining hall. On the ground, huge wooden logs were piled up and a fire was raging high up. Some people, staying at the Mansion in the other rooms were sitting in the benches placed around it. At times, the wooden logs would burst and crumble, throwing sparks all around. We sat down on a bench, feeling the warmth. The smoke was thick.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"This is crazy. Didn't we come here for the cold weather?" my son asked us and he curtly went back to his room. I was struck by what he said. We traveled for over eight hours to reach the mountain ranges with cold weather and then, to fight the cold, we are lighting fires and sitting close to them, inhaling all the smoke! "I am also going," I told my husband who also agreed with me. We went back to our room to relax and play cards and Uno which we carried with us. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">At 8 PM, a sumptuous dinner was served to us. After dinner we again sat down and talked about various things including deep philosophical matters. Strangely, we talked about the self, perceptions, ego and Bhagawat Gita! We were in deep discussions till 11 PM, so we decided not to wake up at 5 in the morning and trek to the top. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The next day, I woke up by 6 AM. The tap water was too cold, still I brushed my teeth and walked down to the kitchen for some hot black coffee. I saw snow sticking to the plants as I walked down and the roof of the dining hall dripping melted snow to the ground. By the time I finished coffee, my husband and son joined me. At 7 we saw a group leaving for trekking. "I am not trekking to the top. You both go, I will relax here," my husband said. The evening trek to sunset point itself was tough for him.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"There is a valley a little further down. We can see snow there. It snowed yesterday night," Sanid informed us. "Let us go before the sun comes up and melt the snow," I suggested. "We can go by jeep. If we walk, it will take half an hour." He replied much to our happiness. We all bundled on the jeep and proceeded through a beautiful road which had heavy trees on both sides. When the jeep stopped, a most fabulous scenery lay in front of us. There was a lake on the right side of a walkway and an expansive land on the left. The land was covered in snow flakes. The grass, barks, few tents and the fire place all were crusted in snow. There were calming and beautiful ripples on the top of the lake. "Will there be any fish in this cold weather?" I asked without thinking. "Antarctica is world's largest producer of fish, do you know?" My son mocked me. We were hesitant to leave that place. Sun's first rays came out and each particle of snow reflected sun's light like little diamonds! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Since the trek was supposed to take over 4 hours, we had light breakfast and my son and I started from the Mansion by 9.30 AM. The trek up to the sunset point was quite alright, but the heat of the sun made it not as enjoyable as last evening. We stopped for a bit under the leafless tree which was the landmark on that point. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"We go through this way", Jithin said as he pointed downhill. "Once we descend, we can not come back. So, please decide whether to go or not. It is impossible to climb up back this way. From Meeshappulimala, we have to get back through another route." This last minute info was disturbing. I looked at my son. He was staring at me. "Shall we go?" I asked him. He shrugged. "Let's go. Anyway, we came to this place to go up to the mountains. So, let us complete it." I said and he nodded. "My shoes are coming out at the heels. I don't know how long it will last," he pointed out. Those shoes were old and I had carried it from Trivandrum for him since he, like his father hardly wear shoes. Anyway, we started our descend. Before that, I happily took the rough stick offered to me since both my knees have arthritis problems. I found it easier to walk with the stick. My son however refused both stick and helping hands. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The climb down was steep and rough. The grip was difficult since there were rolling stones all over the path. After 30 minutes and a few slides, realizing to my horror that a little slip can throw me down a steep incline and break my neck. I happily held the hand of Aneesh who is an expert trekker at tricky places. In the beginning, all of us were laughing, clicking pictures and cracking jokes. "Why is it called Meeshapulimala? Are there huge mustached tigers there?" I asked. Sanid answered, "It is a misnomer, madam. There is some grass growing in abundance there which looks like bushy mustache called 'meesha pullu'. Later it became meesha puli, that's all." He clarified. I was a little sad that there will not be tigers there!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I had to pause a lot in between to catch my breath as we progressed. An hour had passed and we</span><span style="font-size: large;"> were climbing up the third mountain.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> "Are we half way up?" I asked. "Yes," Jithin replied promptly as if to console me. "That is the summit." He pointed to a mountain top quite far away. God, so far? I was sure that it would take more than two hours to get there. We walked on after drinking water and eating bananas for energy. I could see a beautiful blue bit of water in a valley amidst the hills from where I stood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The more we progressed, the more tired and silent everyone became. One step at a time, careful, one step after the other... I remember repeating it as the trek became tougher and harder. When I halted frequently on the hills panting, I pulled out my mobile phone and clicked pictures at random not because the scene was picture worthy but to make the others believe so! I didn't want them to realize that my stamina was so flimsy! There was a long stretch in a plain field between two hillocks, walking which was not too tiring, but the glaring sun made that long walk also strenuous. I took off my woolen shawl and opened the sweater buttons to allow the wind to caress off the sweat. After some time, we crossed over a narrow stream with a fast current of gushing water which rose in a flurry among some bushes, flowed in great merriment and vanished in an undergrowth far away. The water was cool to touch and crystal clear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At last we came to the foot of meeshappulimala. "This will be the final and the toughest climb," warned Jithin as we started. It can't be any tougher than the earlier ones, I thought. But I was mistaken. The mountain was very steep and at certain points your feet will have to be placed higher than your waist level for the next step up. Naturally, I was the last one to reach the summit. On reaching and looking around, I felt a bit disappointed. Is this all? I asked in dismay. Is this really the second highest peak in Western Ghats after Anamudi?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It was a narrow, long strip of the mountain top that accosted us. On one side, the mist blanketed the view entirely. I could only see the mountains we crossed at the back. Kannan Devan Tea estates, Mattuppetti dam and Anamudi were visible. So also a few settlement areas in Tamil Nadu, another dam and unending wilderness. I saw some tiny birds hopping here and there, quite unafraid of humans. "If not tigers, at least some birds are here," I said. "It's the pippet, a bird which existed centuries before humans existed on earth." Sanid remarked. I clicked some pictures which all came out blurred since they never sat still.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After relaxing on the summit and eating a few oranges, waiting for the mist to clear up, we decided to descent since the mist was still thick. "The first climb down is tricky. Please be careful," Jithin warned as we started down. As we walked down, the mist slowly cleared and we could see a little bit of the other side which was just steep mountain side and nothingness. I slipped on some stones and my ankle got a twist. "Ouch! Now the left ankle hurts too along with both my knees," I complained. Seeing no sympathy I bit my lips and walked down again, this time my eyes glued to the ground. Enough of scenic beauty and clicking pictures, I just wanted to get down alive. I heaved a huge sigh of relied after getting down the steep mountain summit. "Six more mountains to go," my son reminded me as one of his shoe's heels came off and he threw it deep into the forest with irritation. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Silently we followed Jithin and Sanid who disappeared from our view. The rest of the trek was a mix of misery, pronounced pain on the feet, hot sun shining on us, hand hurting from holding the stick too tight, sweat, fatigue and a sense of 'enoughness'! I felt that the reason why I felt disappointment at the summit was because of this tiredness. There was indeed a wild beauty in that place, but when you are drained out, you hardly see any beauty. Besides, I expected it to be a huge flat area with amazing views on all sides instead of a narrow strip with one side blocked in a blanket of mist! The trek down was through an area of less greenery. The grass and hills appeared yellow and brown with few shrubs in between. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My son's second shoe's sole too came off as he swore and threw it off too. As I climbed up my head hit against a low branch of a tree eliciting another 'ouch' from me. Now the head hurts too, I murmured as my son gave me an understanding smile. I was sure he was hurting in places too. As we climbed up another mountain we saw Jithin pulling out some leaves from a plant. "This is the real eucalyptus, from which they make oil. Smell it madam," He offered them to me. It smelled strong. "Back at the Mansion, you can add it to the water when you take bath. It will ease the pain," He said. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We continued our trek back. After another hour I asked Sanid, "How far to go?"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Three more mountains and we will reach by the side of the lake where we went in the morning to see snow today." He replied.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Oh, can you bring the jeep there?" I limped a step. He nodded and went off in earnest as we resumed our quiet and slow trek back. After some time we saw a few people trekking up that way. "It is possible to go up to the summit by this route also. People who occupy tents in the snow valley use this route. It is easier." Jithin answered when I asked him. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We came to the foot of the last mountain. "The lake is once we climb up and down this one," Jithin said. We got a new burst of strength knowing that it is coming to an end and started to climb up after a brief rest. At last, it was over. A few steps from the last mountain and to the right, down below I could see the sparkling water of the lake. "Yippee, we reached!" I shouted in glee. I threw the walking stick to the side, thanking it for immensely helping my trek and almost ran towards the lake. My wide smile was greeted by the jeep and Sanid standing near it! I jumped into the jeep. We reached the Mansion by 1.45 PM. As I limped to the room, I saw my husband in a t-shirt, talking to some men. "How was it?" He asked me looking suspiciously at my leg. "Tough. I need a bath." I replied. "The room is open. Use the right tap for hot water. Be careful, it is very hot." He said as I ran towards the room. I had consumed a lot of water and all of it had not gone out as sweat.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the bucket, I took off the Eucaly leaves and put it before opening the right tap which was connected to the solar water heater. The care taker had told us that hot water will come only after 11 AM. But no water came! I waited for over 10 minutes for hot water and since it was not coming, I bathed in ice cold water. As I was toweling myself dry, hot water started to sprout through the right tap! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Back in the open outside the Mansion, I examined my swollen ankle. The men who were talking with my husband came over to me with suggestions galore about healing swelling and pain. "Did you really climb to the summit?" One person asked me. "Yes. With out climbing to the top, we can't come back, can we?" I replied, a little angry at the silliness of the question. "Oh, I couldn't climb the last big one. We can go round it to the return path, there is a way." He said to my amazement. Why didn't these forest people tell me, I wondered. "Forest officials here told me that you are the first IPS officer to climb the summit." He extended his hand to me to shake it. "And great that you climbed all the way! Great to meet a strong woman!" He said as we shook hands. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly my weakness, tiredness and pains vanished. My chest swelled with pride and a sense of achievement. It is truly amazing what words can do to lift up our spirits. I felt very happy and satisfied to have trekked to Meeshappulimala at last! </span><br />
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Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-70501963884707439322018-12-10T23:43:00.002-08:002019-02-14T22:34:23.846-08:00THE OTHER SIDE OF CRIME- 6<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<u>THE OTHER SIDE OF CRIME- 6</u></h2>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Every coin has got two sides. </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>The
stories the convicted female prisoners told about the reasons and causes for
committing the crimes, their experiences in prison, the
lessons learnt, their hopes and expectations- form the crux of these articles.</i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>I am sharing the stories they told me in first person. It is just their version of
the crime, their side of the story. May be they are true, may be false. I
leave it to the readers to decide. </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Happy reading! </i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">Her possessiveness made my
life obscure</span></u></i></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">I have not killed anyone. Nor have I
caused any harm for anyone in my life so far. Still, I am undergoing life
imprisonment as a murder convict in the jail since the last eight years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">I was a good and disciplined student,
yet had to stop studies due to poverty at home. I got trained in an agency as a
home nurse at a young age. After working at several places, through the same
agency, I started working at an apartment in the city to take care of rich old
woman who was staying alone. All her kids were settled abroad. My agent told me
that her legs sustained injuries in an accident and I was needed to cater to
her health. Since that place was quite far off from my house, I opted to stay
at that apartment for six months to save the time and expenses of daily
commutation. I was warned that this lady was short tempered and may throw
tantrums for flimsy reasons. But I needed the salary which was almost double to
what I was getting till then, so I accepted the offer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">That old lady did not have any noticeable
health conditions and had no problems walking. A cook in the kitchen and driver
to take her to places in her car were already employed with her when I joined.
My work comprised of giving her oil massages to the body and head before bath,
giving her timely medicines, applying liniment and balm on her knees and back,
accompanying her to shopping trips and holding her arms whenever she commands. Another
chore was reading loudly the Bible at dusk after lighting candles, which I
happily complied. She told me that I have a good voice and diction. Though she
lost her temper frequently with the driver and the cook, she was always kind
and nice to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">Within three months of my going
there, the cook was dismissed after a big fight. The cooking and cleaning work of
the apartment also fell on my shoulders in addition to nursing the lady which I
took over without grumbling. Once in a few months, the children of the lady would
visit her from abroad. They all liked me and gifted me with cloths and even
money before leaving. Though my initial contract was to work with her for six
months till she recovered from the accident injuries, I stayed on with her for
almost a year. The only problem was she wanted me around her all the time and
refused my umpteen requests to go home to visit my mother and siblings.
However, I went home in between twice, once when a boy and his people came to
see me with a wedding proposal and the other time when my mother got ill. Those
times, when I go back to the apartment, the old lady would be angry with me for
hours, would complain about everything loudly and even shout at me for no
reason at all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“I was so sick that I couldn’t get up
from the bed and there was no one to help me. I spend such a lot of money to you;
still you are of no use!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“I did not eat or sleep for the last
three days you were not here. Why didn’t you cook three day’s food and keep it
in fridge for me? How could you starve an old lady like this?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“A horrible woman sent by the agency
came to clean the place after you left. She messed up everything and could not
even read the Bible! Have you no thought for this poor sick woman? How could
you abandon me?” She would yell.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">I could sing well. She used to make
me sing religious songs frequently. Some nights, my songs lulled her to sleep.
She was missing that and my company. I would tolerate her temper and keep quiet
and in a few days, she would be back to her normal loving self. The next time
when another marriage proposal came, she did not allow me to go home. Seeing me
moody, she consoled me. “I will find a good boy for you. One who knows driving.
Then both of you can stay with me here. He will drive my car and you will be
here always with me.” I came to realise that she was getting overly dependent
on me. Her possessiveness and selfishness worried me at times, but I convinced
myself that it was because she was old and feeling lonely. I learned to ignore
her doldrums and continued to be nice to her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">One day, my mother fell seriously ill
and had to be admitted in the hospital. I got a phone call from home saying
that she wanted to see me. When I asked for permission from the lady, she said
in a casual way, “Oh, there is no need to go. Send some money to her by money
order. She will be alright.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“No, madam, I should go. It is not
money that she wants, it is me. She’s at the hospital. I am her only daughter;
she needs me by my side.” I insisted. But she remained firm and did not let me
go. She ignored my pleas and tears. The next day my brother called me again
saying that my mother needed a surgery and I should go ASAP. Fearing that the
house lady will not allow me if I asked her, I packed up my bag and tried to
leave quietly without telling her while she was taking an afternoon siesta. As
I reached the front door, she came behind my back, pulled me harshly by the
hand and threw away the bag from my shoulder. Shocked, I turned to see the lady
snarling like a wounded tiger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“Oh ho, so you are leaving here in
secret like a thief, eh? Without telling me? With whom are you going to elope?
I will not allow you to go from here. Do you hear?” She looked like a demon
then. I started to cry. “Please madam, my mother is very sick. I have to go.
Let me go.” I went to get my bag which she kicked away from me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“She need not see you. Your liar of a
mother is pretending sickness to take you away from me, I know. It’s a drama. She
is a jealous woman. I will not let you leave me; it’s me who is really sick and
ailing. You can’t go.” She refused to listen to me and started shoving me
around as if possessed. I got angry and afraid at her shocking behaviour. Her
attitude made me decide the matter too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“You can’t stop me, I am going. You
can shout all you want, but my mother needs you and I want to go.” I shouted
back at her and pushing her away, I got hold of my bag. As I turned, she hugged
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“No, no. If you go now, you won’t
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lady always wore a lot of gold jewellery and at that time, her body was bare of
ornaments, they expressed the doubt that it could be a murder for gain. The
watchman of the flat had informed police that he saw me run out of the flat in
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loss. I tried to explain that I pushed her only to get away from her clutches
and not intending to hurt her, but who would listen to me? Police could not
find any ornaments from me. When her children came from abroad, they found all
her jewels intact at her shelf. So theft was deleted from the charges and I was
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time has lapsed. I do all the jobs entrusted on me at this jail sincerely. My
brothers take me out on parole. During those days I spend the earnings I get
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">People here love me. They love my
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<![endif]--><u><i><b>THE OTHER SIDE OF CRIME- 5</b></i></u></h2>
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<b><i><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In this hell on earth, I
live.</span></u></i></b></div>
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<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Every coin has got two sides. </i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>The
stories the convicted female prisoners told about the reasons and causes for
committing the crimes, their experiences in prison, the
lessons learnt, their hopes and expectations- form the crux of these articles.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>I am sharing the stories they told me in first person. It is just their version of
the crime, their side of the story. May be they are true, may be false. I
leave it to the readers to decide. </i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Happy reading! </i></span></h3>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am the first woman in the state to
be sentenced for death penalty. May be the last too, because I don’t think any
other woman on earth is capable of doing the same type of cruelty that I did. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have studied post graduation in
history. As part of my studies, I visited a jail with my friends once during
college days. Seeing those people inside the dark cells living with frozen
minds, I remember feeling a mixed emotion of sympathy and sarcasm. I had a lot
of friends, I was close to a lot of boys in my prime, but I never felt love
towards any of them even in the height of youth. My parents were both
government servants and reared me up in a strict manner, instructing from my
childhood that physical closeness with the opposite sex is a big sin. I am the
only girl among the four children my parents had. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sadly my parents found a groom for me
who was not at all a match for me. He was over twelve years older than me but
very rich. My father thought I would have a good married life with him. I stood
in utter shock at the sight of the man who came to ‘see’ me, his bulging tummy,
receding hair line and grey tinged mustache! After the wedding, a further devastation
was waiting for me. I found that this was his second marriage! From that moment onward I started hating my parents and brothers intensely. I decided to live
my life the way I wanted, without heeding to anything or anybody. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My husband loved me a lot. He never
hesitated to take me wherever I wanted to go, buy whatever I wished to possess.
Big, palatial house, car and driver to take me everywhere, servants to do all
my bidding… I had everything. So, I found satisfaction in all that. Within two
years, I became the mother of a most beautiful baby girl. A few years passed
off like that. My husband had several business concerns and traveled a lot.
When my daughter started play school, I got quite bored sitting at home doing
nothing. So one day I asked my hubby, “May I manage that textile shop in town?
I have passed post graduation, I think I can do some work to help you. We can
save the salary of the manager there too.” He did not like my request. “If you
are bored, do something that you enjoy. Join some course, study something new
like driving, dress making or something. Or join a club.” He suggested. The
textile shop was not a fit place for the owner’s wife to work, he added. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After I kept on my stubborn request
to allow me to work somewhere, he resented at last. He allowed me to manage the
new pharmacy which was opened very near our house. “Just manage the accounts
there. The rule is that only those who have the required pharmaceutical
qualifications should be posted in medical shops. So don’t sell any medicines
to anyone.” He advised. Every day in the morning, I would dress up beautifully in sari and jewellery and go to the pharmacy to work. I felt very happy. I
enjoyed the respect that the sales boys showed me. I was happy to see some
people and happier to use all those expensive dresses and trinkets I had. There
was an army camp very near the shop, so a lot of good looking guys in uniform used
to come to the shop for medicines. One among them was a well behaved guy who
always smiled at me and called me madam. He was a nurse at the military
hospital. I was ignorant enough to think that he was coming to my shop not just
for medicines, since as a hospital staff in the armed forces; he had free access
to every medicine within the camp itself!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyways, he used to buy plenty of
medicines from the shop saying that they are needed for the military clinic.
Slowly our friendship developed into love. I knew I was falling into a desperate
emotional bondage. But I did not care about the consequences much. I just
wanted to be happy in the new feeling of love for a man which I never felt
before. I was aware that there are plenty of traps set by men to snare hapless
women. But love, when it enslaves you, is truly blind. I found only good
qualities in that boy. I fell head down into the warm whirlpool of love and
immensely enjoyed bathing in its swirls of waves. My lover was married and had two
children, but that did not bother me. All my common sense had been swept away
by the tides of that vast ocean called passion. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We tried to keep our affair a secret.
This is not serious stuff, it is just for fun, I convinced myself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We vowed not to create any problems in our
family. But as we met more often, things became more intense. There came a
stage when he could not stay away from me nor I from him. “Let us get rid of
our spouses. Let us get married and live together as husband and wife. Without
fearing any one. You get divorce from that old man.” He started to tell me
frequently. I knew that I could not divorce my husband or stay away from my
daughter. Or any of the comforts that I was so used to. My lover is just a male
nurse. He will not be able to afford all these luxuries. I will not be able to
stay at a military quarters with him. And he was younger than me. I loved him,
needed him physically. But I wasn’t willing to marry him. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once I firmly expressed my reluctance
to divorce, he started to play a different tune. “If he dies due to some
illness, will you marry me?” He asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“What illness? He is quite healthy.”
I replied. I convinced myself that as time went by, I would lose interest in
this lover of mine. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“There are medicines for that, you
know? Medicines can cure a person of illness, similarly cause illness too.” He
whispered. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“No, no. Don’t say such things.” I
got scared. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We fought and he stayed away from me
for a few days. In the beginning, it was okay for me, I managed the separation.
I thought he would come back to me. But as a week went by without him
contacting me, I panicked. I suffered acute depression. I couldn’t eat or
sleep. I had no peace. My chest hurt a lot. I was at the end of my wits. I
decided to see him again. I have only one life. I need him in this life, I
thought.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Do whatever you want. I need you in
my life.” I told him that night. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He gave me a tablet to put in my
husband’s bed time milk. That night I opened the front door of the house for
him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“He is just sleeping now. If this has
to look like a cardiac death, I need to give him an injection.” He said as he
pulled out a filled up syringe from his pocket. But the moment the needle
entered into my husband’s vein, he woke up. There ensued a fight as I slipped
out of the room and closed the door. After sometime, my lover called me inside.
I stood aghast. My husband lay dead on the bed, but he had plenty of injuries
on his face and body. No one would now believe it to be a natural death!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I started to panic. “Don’t worry, I
will handle this. Get me a sharp knife, some cloths and a big sack.” He instructed.
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What happened next was something that
curdled my blood. I saw him lay down my husband’s body in a tarpaulin sheet in
the bathroom and cut him to pieces. He then packed up his parts in plastic
sacks. As he was slamming the severed head into an already stuffed sack, we
heard a noise at the bathroom door. To my dismay, I saw my five year old
daughter who was sleeping in the adjacent room at the bathroom door, watching
everything!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I gathered her in my blood stained
arms, but she ran off from me. That moment I knew that things will be turning
against me. My lover left the house with the sacks containing my husband’s
sliced up body and I was left to clean the house. As I cleaned up the bathroom
and the knives, I felt deep hatred and fear for that nurse well up within me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the police inquiry, I told them
everything. My daughter gave correct statement to the police. I felt proud of
her, she is such a sweet little girl! I was convicted with death after trail in
the court. I know I totally deserve to be hanged at the gallows; I had
committed an unspeakable crime. But my brothers filed an appeal in the high
court which reduced my sentence to life imprisonment taking sympathy in the
fact that I am a woman and I only abetted the murder. That murderer who was
once my lover, he did not get any relief from his death sentence even at the
apex court. It has been twelve years now in this jail. I get out on paroles. My
daughter takes me to that old big house whenever I get paroles. She is now
attending entrance coaching classes. She wants to become a doctor.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have a plea for my fellow sisters
in the society. Please do not allow any crimes such as these to be committed in
the name of love. Whatever be the punishment that the law gives you, a fire
which cannot be doused by anything will keep burning within you. You will be condemned
to the fires of hell within yourself forever and ever.</span></div>
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Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-89877224947425719452018-11-23T04:28:00.002-08:002019-02-14T22:34:59.987-08:00The Other Side of Crime- 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">The Other Side of Crime- 4</span></u></b></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">My daughter said, ‘You are
mad!’</span></i></b></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Every coin has got two sides. </i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>The
stories the convicted female prisoners told about the reasons and causes for
committing the crimes, their experiences in prison, the
lessons learnt, their hopes and expectations- form the crux of these articles.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>I am sharing the stories they told me in first person. It is just their version of
the crime, their side of the story. May be they are true, may be false. I
leave it to the readers to decide. </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Happy reading! </i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">It has been eleven years since I have
been incarcerated within these dark cells. I am just 54 years old, but I look
like a seventy year old woman. Everyone calls me the mad grandma here. But the
first person who ever called me mad was my daughter. My own little angel! </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“You are mad woman, do you know that?
A horrible, crazy old woman, you hag! Why don’t you just go and die?!” She
shouted and growled at the same time while trying to attack me. Did it happen
yesterday or ten years back? </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">I was good at my studies as a kid. My
childhood ambition was to become a school teacher. I was the eldest of the six
children in my family, still my parents allowed me to study as much as I
wanted. While I was doing final year bachelor’s studies, my marriage got fixed
by the family. They told me that he is a good boy from an excellent family and
that he would allow me to continue studies even after marriage. Though I was
unwilling to marry the guy who came to see me, I was forced into the alliance
for the sake of my younger siblings. </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">My husband was addicted to liquor and
narcotic drugs. He would not physically hurt me, but once under the influence
of liquor, he would shout awful abuses loudly and continuously at me at which I
used to shudder and shiver in abject shame. He would do the same to others too.
The neighbours and people around hated us because of his behaviour. Sometimes I
felt that it would have been better if he physically assaulted rather than harass
with these loud verbal attacks which went to intolerable limits at times. But
once he becomes normal, he loved me unconditionally. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">Because of his character both our
families alienated us. He got frequent suspensions and disciplinary actions in
his job too. My friends advised me that his character will change once we get a
child. There was no problem for me in conceiving, but four times there were
some problems and I had to suffer abortions. After a lot of prayers and taking
adequate care, I ultimately got this daughter. She was like me, mild, good
looking and intelligent. She was smart at studies in school too. After her birth I found a new purpose in life.
I was living for her, my joys and pleasures were all for her. She used to say
that she would become a doctor and treat those people like her father. </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">My husband continued in the same way
as before. No, actually, it became worse as time passed by. There were days
that he was totally under the influence of alcohol and drugs. I was shocked to
see him consume all sorts of things together and smoke cannabis on top of that.
I tried to get him treated several times, but without his consent, treatment
was impossible.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">When my daughter was thirteen, one
night we came to know that my husband died, suffocating on his own vomit, on
the side of the public road. I hugged my daughter and cried, not out of despair
for becoming a widow, but because my daughter has become father less. Actually,
I was relieved that he died, after all, I would now get a respite from all
those traumas, was the main thought that invaded me on getting the news. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">After he passed, both our family
members came forward to support us. With their help, we lived peacefully. My
daughter passed tenth standard with distinction and I admitted her for entrance
tuition also along with her plus two classes, to prepare her to get admission
for MBBS course. While she was in twelfth, one day, she did not return home as
usual from her tuition class even after the due time. I went around enquiring
in panic. I could not sleep or have a moment of peace that night. The next day,
I came to know from the police station where I went to give a complaint that my
daughter eloped with a man at least ten years older than her! The man is a
notorious criminal, an illegal bootlegger and accused in several cases. My God!</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">My own little princess! My treasure!
How could she do this? She was trapped, I felt sure. Poor girl got kidnapped by
him, I was sure. But the police ignored my complaints. “They came here
yesterday evening, showed us all the details and documents. They got married at
sub registrar’s office a month back.” The officer informed me.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“But that is impossible. She was just
seventeen. How could the sub registrar legalize marriage of a minor girl?” I
queried. </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“She showed us proof that she was
above 18.” He dismissed me with a wave of his hand. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">I went home to search out her SSLC (high school certification)
book. The date of birth entered there would prove she was a minor. To my shock,
I found that not just that, but most of her possessions were missing. She had
prepared for her elopement carefully. She loved him? But…? I got so devastated
that it felt as if all the Gods have cheated me. I was not willing to give up
my daughter to a goon so easily. I went around with complaints to every office.
I even filed a court case. I spent all my savings to just see her one more time
just to know if she really wanted that sort of life. Even in my deepest throng
of depression and tormenting torrents of tears on those days, my mind did not
slip away from me. I did not become mad. But still I could not see my daughter.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">It was only after three years that
she came back to the town with her husband. She was full term pregnant then. I
could not be angry at her. She is the only one left for me. I ran to see her. I
took care of her. I was at the hospital when she delivered a healthy boy. I
took care of the child also for the three days she was in hospital. I felt as
if I got back my daughter in my life. However she preferred to go to her
husband’s house with the baby on discharge from hospital. I had to reluctantly
agree though it surprised me how she could be so devoted to such a devilish
fellow.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">On the day of the naming ceremony of
the baby, I went with plenty of gifts for the baby, including a gold hip chain.
It is the prerogative of grandmothers to tie the gold chain on the hip of the
child. The function and the lunch went well. I was planning to return back in
the evening. I lied down a bit in a side room for an afternoon siesta after the
festivities ended. I woke up with a start hearing loud noises and shouts
outside. When I hurried to check what the commotion was about, I found that the
baby was missing! He was sleeping in the crib by my daughter and she woke up to
find the crib empty. They were searching everywhere for the child. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">As I stood praying for the safety of
the baby, I saw a man climb up the well in the compound with the body of the
very dead baby. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">I stood paralyzed at the horrible sight. Good God, which horrid
person did that? I went near my screaming daughter and tried to console her. “My
child…” I put my arms around her. She hit at my arms, turned to me like a furious
cheetah and roared, “What did my baby do to you, you horrible woman? You must
be angry towards me, you must be despising me, but why did you kill my innocent
baby for that? How could you do this to me?” I got an electric shock go through
my skull at these words. What? She thinks it was me who threw her child into
the well? But I was nowhere near the baby or the well the whole afternoon. If I
wanted to kill the baby, I should have done it the day he was born. When I held
him for the first time. Wasn’t it to my arms that the nurse gave him straight
from the labour room? Or any of those days in the hospital when he was totally
with me all the time. How could my daughter even think that I had a hand in
this? But she continued to shout at me.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“You are raving mad! You abused me a
lot as a child. It was because of your mental problems that I had to run away
from home. In your madness, you murdered my child!” Aghast, I shook my head trying
to tell her that I loved her, she spat at me. “You are mad woman, do you know
that? A horrible, crazy old woman, you hag! Why don’t you just go and die?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">Police case, statements,
investigations, trial and everything else went on as if in a dream. The case
was that since the child looked like its father I hated it the same way as I
hated my daughter’s husband. I had fights with my daughter and her husband and
referred to the child as Satan, my daughter’s statement said! I was punished
with life term imprisonment for murdering a child. When my daughter turned my
worst enemy I was left speechless. I lost all hope in my life. Am I really mad,
I wondered? Have I ever abused my daughter? I could not remember even scolding
her once in my life. I still fail to understand what I did for my daughter to
hate me so. She has not come to see me in prison or when I go out on paroles. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">My siblings and my husband’s family
members are nice to me. They take me out on paroles and love me a lot. My
daughter has two kids now. I would love to see them and caress them in my arms.
But if I go to see them, they may get scared and shout, “Look, here comes the
mad grandma!” I shouldn’t make the poor kids scared…</span></span></div>
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Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-88895481740048611422018-11-12T03:47:00.000-08:002018-11-12T03:50:07.539-08:00The Other Side of Crime- 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">The Other Side of Crime- 3</span></u></b></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">I had to remove that horrible
stain! </span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Every coin has got two sides. </i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>The
stories the convicted female prisoners told about the reasons and causes for
committing the crimes, their experiences in prison, the
lessons learnt, their hopes and expectations- form the crux of these articles.</i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>I am sharing the stories they told me in first person. It is just their version of
the crime, their side of the story. May be they are true, may be false. I
leave it to the readers to decide. </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Happy reading! </i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After obtaining my nursing degree, I worked for over
three years in a reputed hospital earning a respectable salary. However, I
stopped working after marriage like a good wife, like my husband wished. He was
an officer in the Indian Army. We have two kids, the elder being a girl. I also
wanted to work alongside my husband as a military nurse and requested him
several times to get me an employment in his corps, but he insisted that I stay
back at our family house to take care of his aged father and later our
children. His father was sick ever since our marriage and I had to double up as
a home nurse and a daughter in law to him. Prior to him getting fully bed
ridden, I was to the military camps with my husband to various exotic locations
in India which I tremendously enjoyed. After I delivered our daughter, this was
stopped and I became a full time house wife. But I never complained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was born in a poor family and have tasted the
bitterness of poverty while growing up. Because I was somewhat good looking, my
husband was willing to marry me without any dowry. He also met most of the expenses
of marriage. He is a goodhearted soul who loved me unconditionally. Even after
two deliveries he called me ‘his beautiful girl’. He sent a major portion of
his salary to me every month and never ever asked how I spent it. In addition,
there was revenue from agricultural products at his family property too. I had
no shortage of anything. There was enough food, clothing and entertainment.
Cash was also not an issue at all. However, the only lack I felt was of
transportation. There was an old car at home which gets out of the shed only
when my husband came on leave. I found it difficult to resort to public
transportation for urgent needs like taking the kids for tuition or to the park
or the old father in law to the hospital. Taxis were too expensive for going
out for shopping or for buying medicines. When I started to complain about this
over phone, he arranged a distant relative to come and stay near us to help us
with these things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This guy was a young man who completed his post
graduation and could not get a job till then. He knew driving and was extremely
well behaved and obliging to all of us. He was occupying a room on rent at a
nearby bachelor’s quarters. He turned out to be a big blessing for me. He used
to come as soon as summoned even in the dead of night and started to take care
of everything. I happily sent him for shopping and to hospitals also. This boy
had a pleasant demeanor and attractive manners. Very soon, he endeared himself
not just to me and to my husband’s old father, but also to my children. I
started to consider him as my little brother and gave him all freedom in the
house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As time went by, he started to show this freedom on me
and my body too. While talking, he would touch me, put his hand on my shoulder
and even hug me when he came home after weekends. At first I let him do it,
thinking that he was showing brotherly affection to me. But even when I knew
within the deep recess of my heart that those gestures were getting far from
brotherly, I did not make any attempt to stop him. I suppose I enjoyed it and
sometimes even craved for it. On one occasion when he gave me the kit carrying
provisions, he caressed the entire length of my hand in a loving and gentle
way. Instead of feeling irritated and angry at him, I found this highly
arousing and sexy. It felt as if a mild electric current passed through my body
when he did that. Things changed after that touch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is said that people are slaves of their
circumstances. The absence of my husband at home and the interest that this boy
showered on me triggered hidden passions in my heart which led to an extra
marital affair between us. We started to have a secret communion which lasted
for three years. One day my husband’s father expired and he came home for a
month for the funeral. While leaving back to the military base, I heard him
tell his relative boy to be always there for me. Poor man, I felt a deep pity
for his trust in me, but by that time, things were at a point of no return. We
continued our relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One day he told me that his parents are forcing him to
marry a girl they found. I encouraged him to marry her thinking that it will be
good in every sense. Even after marrying and bringing his wife also to the
rented accommodation nearby, we continued our relationship. His marriage was
like a protective shield for me. I thought that now nobody will suspect that we
were having illicit relationship. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On one Sunday when I came back from the Church, I saw
something which wrung my heart. My thirteen year old daughter was giving him
tea. While taking the tea cup, he caressed the hand of my daughter, the same
way like he did to me years back. To my utter shock, I saw my daughter
shivering in pleasure at that touch, her innocent expression turning into a
hungry one! He was smirking at her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I lost control of myself. I snatched the
tea cup from him and threw it to the floor, crashing it to smithereens. I
slapped my puzzled daughter and shouted at her never to even see that guy. I
screamed at him, “Get out of this house, you bastard. I don’t want to see you
again. Ever!” I expected him to cringe and obey me. Instead, he too became
violent. He shouted back at me, “Shut up, you bitch! I will come here, do
whatever I want here too. Don’t even try to stop me or else I will reveal
everything to your husband and everyone else too. Remember, I have your text
messages and pictures in my phone!” He threatened me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jesus! I started to cry. I saw my world crash around
me like the tea cup I threw on the floor. Long after he left, I went inside to
console my daughter. I have never slapped her before. Although I tried to
explain my pain and apologized to her, she refused to listen to me. I never
expected him to behave like this to my daughter. She calls him uncle, how could
an uncle figure do this to a child? Is he that bad? Why didn’t I see this
horrible side of him so far? He will do it again. My daughter will allow it
too. But I will not allow it, I decided that night. I have to find ways to stop
it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The next day, I went to his place and apologized to
him. I asked him to come home like before and that I will not be able to manage
anything without him. I pretended to be sorry and was happy to see him fall
prey to the trap. Back home, I took out my old nursing text books from the
dusty box and started to study them again. I was searching for the foolproof
method to kill a man without anyone suspecting any foul play. Then I procured
cyanide and mixed the required quantity in the lime juice which I made by
adding more than enough sugar to mask its metallic taste. Then I called him
over phone to my house for some chores and offered the lime juice after
everything was done. I expected him to drink it and leave the house for his
room. I calculated that the drug will start affecting only within thirty
minutes. But more precise calculations are made in heaven, I suppose. As soon
as he consumed the juice, he fell down on the kitchen floor, started to vomit and
was in the throbs of death. I panicked. I couldn’t do anything except shout and
scream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Help, help! Somebody please help, my relative is
sick, he needs to be taken to the hospital.” I cried loudly going to the gate
of our house. The neighbors came immediately, the ambulance was called and he
was taken to the hospital. But he died in the ambulance itself. I cleaned up
the vomit in the kitchen, washed the glass in which poisoned lime juice was
given and burnt the packet of remaining cyanide immediately to destroy
evidence. Still, the police arrested me during the investigation of the case
because autopsy revealed the presence of cyanide in his stomach. “It must be
suicide. He had plenty of problems. He didn’t eat or drink anything from here.
He must have consumed it before coming here”, I tried to defend myself to
police. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“His wife gave us a statement that he was having
illicit relationship with you. She said you called him on that day and he went
from home over an hour before his death. Cyanide poisoning is fast. We also
traced out the shop from which you got the poison. The case is strong.” The
investigating officer informed me. “We also know your motive. Your daughter
told us that there was a fight between you last Sunday when he threatened to
reveal your affair to your husband. You finished him off to silence him.” I
froze. I could not believe that my own child would speak against me. I felt the
noose tightening. At the court during trial also, I repeated the plea that I
was innocent and it was a suicide. “He was angry at me. He wanted me to suffer,
so he must have consumed cyanide while in my house to punish me.” I pleaded. “Then
why did you go and buy cyanide from the chemists?” The judge asked and sentenced
me to life imprisonment for murder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My husband resigned from the military and now is home
with my children. He hates me and refuses to see or talk to me. I go out on
paroles, but during that time, I stay with my parents. Even now I don’t feel
that I did a crime. That man was a horrid stain in the society. I just wiped off
that stain. That was all. </span></div>
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Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-91654928377058204312018-11-09T04:11:00.003-08:002018-11-12T03:49:37.894-08:00 The Other Side of Crime- 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <b>The Other Side of Crime- 2</b></span></u></span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<u><i><span style="font-size: large;">My heaven collapsed so fast!</span></i></u></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<br /></h2>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Every coin has got two sides. </i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>The
stories the convicted female prisoners told about the reasons and causes for
committing the crimes, their experiences in prison, the
lessons learnt, their hopes and expectations- form the crux of these articles.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>I am sharing the stories they told me in first person. It is just their version of
the crime, their side of the story. May be they are true, may be false. I
leave it to the readers to decide. </i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Happy reading! </i></span></h3>
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<u><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></u></h2>
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was my family life! Such a loving and caring husband, two intelligent and smart
daughters! My husband was a businessman and I lived like a queen in a palace
like house with cars, servants, drivers and gardeners to do all my bidding. My
children were studying at the best school in town and both were toppers in
class. It was all of a sudden that things turned topsy-turvey for me.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">My husband died
in a car crash. It was a sudden cataclysmic shock for me. I think I too died in
my mind for a few days. Time and days passed by where I lived in an unconscious
stupor at a house filled with relatives and friends. Slowly as reality sank in
me, I assumed that these people at my house will console and help me to live
on. On some black moments I too wished to die and join my husband in heaven,
but the faces of my daughters pulled me back from that wish. After the funeral
when people started to leave us, I was faced with another huge shock. Troubles
come in heaps, it is said. I came to know that the business empire, our
properties, vehicles and every material thing we possessed were pledged to some
financial institution or bank. My husband’s life was a big lie- he was living
in luxury on borrowed funds. We started losing everything one by one. Those
people who crowded around us just disappeared when they too got wind of the
news of our huge debts. Who would be so giant-hearted to take care of a
penniless widow and her two daughters?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">On top of all
this, some men who looked like hired gangsters started frequenting our house
with demands of repayment of loans that my husband owed them. “He has to give
us Rs five lakhs. When are you going to give it?” “Give us the ten lakhs
immediately or face eviction.” “This car is actually ours. We are taking it.” </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">I was just
eighteen when I got married. My education stopped after twelfth standard. I
have no idea of the business my husband was doing. I knew no accounts or
complicated maths. Still I went through all the documents, records and bank
statements carefully to find out what went wrong. Those goons were correct. We
are neck deep in debt. Everything is pledged. Then that nagging doubt reared
its head. Was it really an accident? Or did he commit suicide out of despair?
What will I do now? Why did he leave us in such a mess? Should I tell this to
police? No, if police finds it to be suicide then we will not even get the
motor accident claim due to us! I knew that the car which was driven by my
husband got hit by a truck on the highway. That truck could not be traced so
far, but there were witnesses who saw the incident. I buried my doubts and
decided to believe that it was an accident. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">I was totally
confused about our future path. I got some money from my brother and the old
mother. I sold all our gold ornaments, silverware and brass articles. Still,
the amount was not enough to pay back all the debts. The house was already
pledged, so it could not be sold. A small respite ensued; still I worried every
day and night about the future of my daughters. I could transfer them to a
Government school to avoid the heavy monthly fees, I could take a rented
accommodation, I could beg the people I know for loaning money, but none of
these provided a permanent solution. Yes, I could take a job.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">I started
hunting for a job. For someone with just plus two as education, the jobs I
could get were that of a hotel receptionist, sales girl or phone attendant. The
monthly income from such jobs will not even sufficient to buy grains. I tried
my luck with my relatives who all spurned me. “We have given you enough. There
is no more that can be spared.” They were at least frank towards me. Only my
bed ridden mother sympathized with me and gave me money willingly. After a few
months, I could not find anything of value at home which could assuage the
hunger pangs of our tummies. That was when I decided to go to my husband’s
friend and long time partner in business. He owns a few hotels in town. I
expected him to help us. I have heard of his good and humane character also. He
gave me an appointment promptly, but when I told him of my problems, his demeanor changed. “What can I do to help? My business is suffering because of
recession. I also have a lot of loans. Besides, I do not have any vacancies that
fit you at present. You have lived a good life, how can I give you small jobs
such as cleaning?” He shrugged me off. I was at a breaking point by then. So, I
started to cry shamelessly in front of him. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">“Sir, I will
take any job, cleaning, sweeping, kitchen work or cooking. If you do not have a
servant at home, I can work as one too. I will do any work, I’m that desperate.”
I clarified.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">“Anything, eh?”
He scratched his chin and stared vacantly at me as if in deep thought. A
lightning of fear passed through me. Still I replied firmly. “Yes sir. Anything
except selling my body.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">“Do you have
passport?” That was his next question. I answered in the affirmative. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">“Then I will
give you a job. But it is in Dubai. You should go there next week. My men will
give you the instructions. Just leave your phone number and pack up your bags.”
He said. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">I was so
relieved that I almost touched his feet in gratitude. Dubai! That means I will
get a good salary. My children can continue to study in their public school. We
need not shift from our house. I will ask someone to stay at my place to take
care of the kids. I was on cloud nine with joy at the prospect. A week later a
car and driver came to drop me at the airport. The driver gave me the ticket and
visa as well as a big packet. “Please keep these in your bag. They are pickles.
Since carry bags do not allow eatables, you have to put them in the check in
bags. Someone will collect it from you in Dubai.” He said. He also gave me the
phone number and details of the person who would pick me up from Dubai airport.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">When I reached
Dubai, a man was waiting to pick me up. When he dropped me at the small one
bedroom apartment, he took the pickle bottles from me and said he would call me
soon with further instructions. The apartment was well furnished and the
kitchen was fully stocked. A Philippine lady came to clean up and cook food for
me. I was comfortable in every way, except that there was no work for me to do.
I waited for the promised call for two days and not getting it, called all the
phone numbers I knew. No one picked up my calls. That apartment had no phone
and my cell phone had no facility to make international calls. Thankfully, I
had a few dinars with me, so I made a call from a call booth outside to the
hotel owner who sent me there. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">“Sorry, the job
I arranged for you didn’t come through. It is better that you get back until I
fix up another job for you there. Don’t worry; I will pay you a month’s salary
in advance.” I was puzzled, still I agreed and waited for the man to take me
back to airport. I came back to my house much to the delight of my kids and the
hotel owner gave me fifty thousand rupees as advance salary. Within a
fortnight, he sent me again the tickets saying that it is time for me to go
there. The same driver came and handed me the packet of pickle bottles to place
in my check in bag. I instantly got suspicious and refused. I opened and
checked up the bottles, there were three huge bottles which were sealed. From
outside they did look like pickles, but I was reluctant to carry it with me. Then
the hotel owner called me over phone.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">“Hey, don’t
worry. You are right, there is heroin hidden inside the pickles. But you will
not be caught. Women are respected a lot in Arab countries, they will not be
suspicious of you. Also, there are no equipment to detect heroin in check in
bags and sniffer dogs will get only smell of pickles. And I will give you one
lakh rupees for each trip. Don’t you want to repay all your loans?” He consoled
me. I believed him. Thus knowingly, I became an international carrier of heroin.
For a few years it went on without any problems. On one trip, I got detained by
Customs who opened my bag and checked the bottles. I didn’t know that they monitor bags of
frequent travelers to a single destination. They got suspicious of the bottles
I took each time, which the X-Rays screened. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">I was arrested
and sent to prison. After trial, the court convicted me for ten years of
imprisonment. I am in jail for six years now. I have filed an appeal in the
high court which is taking a long time to decide. Both the customs officials
and the police asked me repeatedly about the source from where I got the drugs.
I refused to reveal the name of the hotel owner. I will never reveal his
identity. Because, he is taking care of my daughters now. He is paying the fees
of my advocate. And he promised to give me a respectable job once out of the prison
cell. I go on paroles every six months.
My eldest daughter is a law student now. Now I am living for them. They should
not suffer because of my misdeeds. They should get to high places, get married
to good boys and live happily. They have suffered enough already.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-35451018519887987372018-11-07T05:00:00.001-08:002018-11-12T03:47:59.979-08:00The Other Side of Crime- 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span>
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Every coin has got two sides. </i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>The
stories the convicted female prisoners told about the reasons and causes for
committing the crimes, their experiences in prison, the
lessons learnt, their hopes and expectations- form the crux of these articles.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>I am sharing the stories they told me in first person. It is just their version of
the crime, their side of the story. May be they are true, may be false. I
leave it to the readers to decide. </i></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Happy reading! </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">The Other Side of Crime- 1</span></b></span></span></div>
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<u><i><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;">“I didn’t do any crime, please
believe me”</span></i></b></span></span></i></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I swear I haven’t done any crime. My
advocate assured me that I will be acquitted by the court. I stood waiting at
the accused box inside the court, the ever shining beam of optimism weakly trying
to push out the darkness of apprehension within my heart. The judge refused to look
at me as read out the verdict.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Since the crimes committed by the
accused are proven beyond reasonable doubt, I convict her of double term life
imprisonment.”</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I stood frozen as if the earth caved
from underneath my feet. The gloom which triumphed in my heart rose to my eyes
in victorious waves as I crumpled down on the floor. No, no! I did not do it…
I am totally innocent, totally... I was wailing, pleading, but no voice
came out.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was a simple little girl who loved
flowers and butterflies. I enjoyed the small joys in life as a child. Though
born in a poor family, I knew I was beautiful. Fair and cute with an angelic
face, they all said. No one told me that I should study well in school or get
an employment in future or even become economically stable. I was taught the
little chores that every housewife should know. Cooking, cleaning, sewing,
dancing and singing… the last two, probably to please the future husband!
Somehow I studied till the tenth class without failing after which my school
life stood still. I was still a child even when I became the wife of a Gulf employed
man. At those times, it was indeed considered fortunate in my place to marry a
man working in the Gulf Countries.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My husband was extremely cruel. He
was a sadist who enjoyed torturing me. Married life was hell for me. I used to
heave huge sighs of relief when he went back to Gulf for work leaving me with
his people. His younger brother was the only one who sympathized with me. It
seemed that he could see and feel the various bruises and burn injuries caused
by cigarette butts on my body. His old mother ignored my cries of despair. My
parents thought caring for the daughters ended with their marriage. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As time went on, I became mother to
two children. Still, I dreaded my husband’s return home on leave. Whenever I
get news that he will be home for a few days, I would start contemplating
death. I stand near the well in the compound, near the electricity post or the
stove in the kitchen seriously wondering whether it would be easier to commit
suicide than suffer his tortures. Thoughts of my little kids would pull me back
from the death-wish though I knew that my hesitation was pulling me deeper into
the abyss of misery. Fear makes one less tolerant of physical hurt. That time
when he came home, my trepidation led to unbearable pains. He seemed to enjoy
that. No woman should experience such horrors from her husband who is supposed
to protect and love her. On the third day of his leave, I got admitted in the
hospital. He threatened that if I reveal the real reason behind the injuries,
he would kill me and my kids. So even when the doctors asked me repeatedly to
file a police complaint, I just cried and refused to budge.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After he left, for the first time in
my life, I experienced love. I was taken home from the hospital by my husband’s
brother in the car. He had a small job in town. He was also getting ready to go
to the Gulf in search of a new job. As I sat on the front seat, he kept
consoling me and telling how much he understood and empathized with me. I knew
I should have considered him as my brother too; I was ethically his elder sister
even though age wise, he was older than me. Still, I fell in love with him. He
treated me as if I was as brittle as glass, as soft as cotton. His supple and
gentle touches made me feel like a bud caressed by the bee to open up to a sweet
smelling flower. Till then I never knew that a man could give so much pleasure
to a woman. Our love was an unstoppable flow and it just had to happen. We were
careful to be as secretive as possible though I never felt any guilt in that
relationship. But good things hardly last in my life. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Somehow my mother in law came to know
about it. And things took a turn for the worse. She started to attack me at the
slightest opportunity. What started as a mental harassment soon became
physical. She quarreled with her younger son and packed him off from the house
to a distant relative’s house. She started beating up my kids just to spite me.
One night she made the little children stand outside the house the whole night just
to see me cry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she summoned my
husband home. I knew she must have told him everything because his cruelty towards
me became intolerable. I decided to kill myself then. I had no other escape
route. My parents and relatives also accused me of immorality and told me not
to approach them for any help. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The night my husband came home was
one of extended torture. After beating me till I almost lost consciousness, he
left home with my daughter to his uncle’s house nearby promising more torture
once he returned. When I could get up from the floor, I took out the sharp
knife I kept hidden under the bed and slashed deep both my wrists one after the
other. Let him take care of the kids. But let him not marry again, God, I
prayed as I lost consciousness. Just before my mind got invaded by blackness, I
saw it clearly. Someone came into the room and carried my sleeping little son
outside in his arms. Who was that, why and where was he taking my son? I wanted
to scream, but couldn’t. I attempted to get up so that I could stop him, but my
body was too weak. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The next day I regained consciousness
and found that I was at a hospital. The first thing I saw was some women police
officers staring at me. One of them told me that my mother in law and my little
son were found murdered at the house. Once the shock of that news sank into my
semi conscious mind, they gave me further shock by saying that I was the major
suspect. I couldn’t understand it at first. I was unconscious. I thought I was
dead. I attempted suicide. See my wrists? I slashed it, wanting to die. At that
time my son and mother in law were alive. Someone must have come in and killed
them. I saw my son being taken out of the room by someone. No, I couldn’t
recognise him, still I saw him. I told them all this several times. I was too
weak to even stop that, how could I kill them? I kept on repeating this to
anyone who cared to listen. But the police case was already decided by then.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No one other than me had any motive
to kill them. I committed the crimes so that I could live a new married life
with my brother in law. My husband and his brother were far away and they had
alibis. Nothing was stolen from the house. There was no forced entry into the
house. The front door of the house was found open, but from inside. I opened it
with plans to drag the bodies outside. The knife which stabbed them to death had
my fingerprints in it. And I slashed my wrists after killing my son and mother
in law for telling the police a false story. This was the police case. I asked
them how I could expect to live an illicit life with my brother in law if my
husband was still there. Shouldn’t it be him that I should kill first instead
of my little baby? How could a mother kill her own little son? And the knife
they recovered as the murder weapon was the one I used daily to cut vegetables
in the kitchen. Naturally it will have my finger prints. None of my questions
were heeded to by anyone.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For the last twelve years I am living
within these dark prison cells for a crime committed by someone else. Days,
nights, birthdays, festivals… there is no distinction for anything here. It is
an eternal cave of darkness. One day they will come to know the truth, I kept
that hope alive. After a few years in this jail, I got an anonymous letter. As
is the practice, the jail authorities opened and read it before it was handed
to me. It had no name of the sender. It said, </span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“It was I who killed them. I had my
reasons. I who took out your sleeping son. He didn’t suffer, his death was
fast. I tied your bleeding hands with cloths. I didn’t want you to die. I also
called the neighbours to intimate them about the murders. I know you are convicted
wrongly, I know that you are innocent. But I can’t surrender before the police
now. I can’t reveal my identity or save you. I feel bad about you. If this
letter can save you somehow, then you can prove your innocence and get out of
prison.” </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hope, that dim lamp which lights up
optimism within the heart started to shine after I read that letter. I sent
copies of it to the judge who convicted me and to the police officers through
my advocate. It has been a few years since I sent it. The original letter is
still with me. No one came to enquire about it so far. I don’t know if they are
even enquiring into it. Last time I asked my advocate he hinted that the police
think that the letter was a fabricated one. Do they think I wrote it myself? When
I went on parole? And posted it to myself? Pray, why? “You filed an appeal against
your conviction in the High Court. They feel that such a letter may be a good defense
from your side to at least ask for a re-investigation. So the police have just
ignored that letter and didn’t include it in the case file, which is now closed
by the way.” The advocate told me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But truth will triumph one day. It
has to. Now no one wants me. My husband and my daughter refuse to see me. My
brother in law is in the Gulf now; he married a few years back. When on parole
I used to go to my brother’s house. He is reluctant to take me on parole these
days. But I still hope that everything to clear up and my innocence will be
proved. Because I did nothing wrong, not a single thing!</span></div>
<i><br /></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A previous DG of Prisons is
remembered even now for the drastic changes he made in the Kerala prison
administration. Dr. Alexander Jacob. He introduced tasty chappathies and
chicken made in prison for the public. Wheat balls (‘unda’ in Malayalam) used
to be the staple diet of prison inmates till around 1990, when chappathies
replaced ‘undas’ as dinner and sometimes even breakfast. Dr Alexander Jacob,
known in police circles as a walking encyclopaedia is a connoisseur of food too.
After tasting the chappathy and chicken made by the prisoners, he got the idea
of making this heavenly taste available to the public also at a cheap rate. It
is that initiative which now became a revolution in the state. Today food units
are there in all the major jails and we have vehicles taking hot food to
various places within the city for sale to public. We also have cafeterias in
Trivandrum, Kannur and Cheemeni. Now jail biriyanis, ghee rice, puttu and
kadala, variety of chicken preparations and tapioca as well as snacks, pickles
and chips are also in high demand. The women inmates are given specialized
training in cooking.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another predecessor of mine had
another novel, out of the box idea to make fashion cloths in the prisons. Sri.
Loknath Behera, the present State Police Chief. He served as DG Prison only for
6 months, but in that time, he opened a beautiful cafeteria for Trivandrum
Central Prison, a new office for the prison headquarters and an boutique titled
aptly as ‘Free Fashinista’ for selling designer outfits made by prisoners for
the public. He even designed a few cloths and made the staff of the department
as models for these cloths. I remember getting briefly associated with this since the idea was so
unique and had every reason to be successful. Now we make our own cloths in the hand-loom units within the prisons and create gent’s designer wear in pure linen
and cotton which is sold at half the market price through our outlets. Ladies dress
like kurtis, tops, churidars, night dress, skirts, leggings as well as bed
linen, towels, mattresses, floor mats, pillows and other products such as
candles, soaps, detergent, cleaning lotions and incense sticks are also sold
through our outlets. A tailoring unit is also functioning on full swing here. A
budding idea is thus in full bloom, not only earning money for the department
but making the public appreciate the talents of the inmates.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Similarly the carpentry units,
organic vegetable farming, fish and aqua farming, animal husbandry and the umbrella,
handicrafts and jewellery units in women prisons are in full swing. There is a
lot of demand from the public for jail products. During festival seasons, we
have organized exhibitions of jail products in various public places. During
one such day, our sales incomes crossed Rs 50,000 which really was quite
surprising. There was huge demand even for the handicrafts items on display
made by talented prisoners. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the
tender coconuts got sold within seconds of opening the sales!</span><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In January 2016, when I assumed
charge as DG Prisons, the total number of prisoners in jails was 7612, of which
218 were females. As on today, the number of total prisoners has increased to
7926.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the number of women prisoners
has decreased to 191, of which the convicted prisoners are only 60 and the rest
131 are under trial prisoners. How did this happen?</span></i><br />
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The officers in prisons department
have no role to play in controlling the number of prisoners in jails. The
society itself plays the most important role in creating criminals. There are
gross inadequacies and inequalities prevailing among people in the society. Lack
of money, unemployment, deprivation, mental instability- are all children of
the skewed society in which we live. Besides, there are groups- mafias and
gangs who operate on the sly to trap others and drag them to the mire of crime.
People who disturb the peace and create problems for others by resorting to
illegal means are bound to get arrested and put behind bars. This is the sole
purpose of the criminal justice system in our country. However, prison officers
can take effective steps to correct those within the jails and see to it that
they get reformed and not repeat the same mistakes once out of the jail. It is
for this purpose that we give a lot of importance to vocational skill imparting, ethical discourses, libraries and promotion of their talents
before the public. Their skills will help them to do some good job once
released. Showcasing their talents is expected to help the society accept them
back in their midst. If reputed organizations employ skilled jailbirds, then
that indeed will go a long way in reducing their stigma in the society as well
as recidivism. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sadly, how much ever work the prison
officers carry out; the proper rehabilitation of a released prisoner is dependent totally on the released person himself. If he feels that he is more comfortable
in resorting to crimes than do honest work, then he will go back to his old
ways. And crimes are increasing in leaps and bounds every day. Sons killing
mothers, fathers killing sons or daughters, revenge killings, minors getting
sexually molested, all types of prohibited substances manufactured and marketed,
illegal money transactions, cheating, domestic and public violence against
women, new modus of cheating, cyber crimes and IT offenses- you will be
surprised to know the efforts some people take to commit complicated crimes! Men
are so difficult to be reformed, that is what I discovered in the past 22
months. They just refuse to get corrected. They will be obedient and well
behaved within the confines of prisons, but once outside, they become the dame
old beast. Recently a woman came to me requesting that her husband who is
incarcerated may not be given paroles since out in parole, he not only beats her
and their son up, but also is sexually aggressive to their teen aged daughter.
And this guy is very quiet and disciplined in the jail too!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But women, once released, do not come
back to prisons after doing the same crimes again. They really do get reformed
and corrected. I know of the released 6 of the 24 women inmates who had obtained
driver’s license after getting trained on automobile driving have found
employments successfully. One lady started her own tailoring unit, another
started a poultry business, yet another started a small tea shop. These were
all previously repeat offenders of sex workers and illicit liquor/cannabis
sellers. Recently a woman came back to the prison within six months of release,
surprising me. She is an expert in handicrafts and cooking and could have got a
job anywhere with her plethora of talents and vocational certificates. Yet she
chose to commit the same crime of selling arrack and got arrested. She was
given Rs 15,000 on release as grant to start some entrepreneurship and she also
got a lump sum of Rs 30,000 for employment in prisons. If she wanted she could
have obtained a loan too, up to Rs 50,000. Despite all this, she committed the
same crime and did not run away from police or resist arrest. When I asked her
why she came back, she answered, “It is safer here. I will not get robbed,
beaten up or raped here. I don’t have to search for a safe place to sleep at night;
I get my food and medicines in time here. I have friends and caring people here.
I am more comfortable here than out there.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I don’t know if prisons should be
such a safe place for criminals. Our duty is not to keep housing persons who
have no other place to go. We are not running homes. Still her words pricked my
heart. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No wonder that I don’t feel that I am
doing just a job. I am also carrying out a great charitable activity as DG,
Prisons! </span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prison Diaries- 4</span></u></b></div>
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<i><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Welfare</span></u></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN">“</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The darker the night, the
brighter the stars, <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The deeper the grief, the closer the
God!” <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<span class="authorortitle"><i>Fyodor
Dostoevsky, </i></span><i><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3393917"><span id="quote_book_link_5692"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Crime and Punishment</span></span></a></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Law says that certain acts
committed by people are criminal in nature. Whatever be the reasons for committing
crimes, they have punishments. 31 years of experience in police department has
made me a firm believer of natural justice. For crimes or misdeeds committed by
us, we will get punishment irrespective of our cleverness to hide evidences and
escape the police, law or justice. There are umpteen instances I witnessed
where nature steps in to mete out penalty in one way or the other to criminals
if police, law or justice becomes helpless to punish him. In certain ways, it
is better to experience punishment within the system of justice and spend some
time inside jails that face nature’s fury. Jail term will be a great cleaning
experience, something which kills the ego, time for introspection, repentance
and correction. They get plenty of time to read, learn new skills, interact
with like minded people and imbibe humility. Besides, they are taken care of by
the government and provided with with timely food, medicines, entertainment,
rest, wages for work done and various other welfare activities. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kerala is the only prison
department where welfare of prisoners is given a lot of importance. Welfare officers
are posted in all the major jails to help inmates cope up with the stress of
confinement. There is a chief welfare officer, three regional welfare officers
and welfare officers who gives counseling, psychological care, mentoring,
skilling, arranges various functions and entertainments within prisons. They
also assist in giving legal aid to prisoners. Further they look after
rehabilitation of released prisoners and provide assistance to raise loans and
grants for ex convicts for setting up entrepreneurship. There are also
probation officers under the social justice department who visit the prisons
regularly to chart out various welfare activities for the inmates. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Every year the government
gives approximately Rs 1 crore for giving vocational training to the inmates.
In addition, another Rs 1 crore is given for organizing welfare days in each
prison. Jail welfare days are days where the various talents of inmates can be
highlighted. They can take part in sports and games, exhibit their various
artistic talents and organize musical nights. In the central prisons, sometimes
the welfare activities stretch to a week. Prizes are given to winners, famous
personalities visit jails to interact with inmates on those days and generally,
prisoners enjoy a lot forgetting fetters at least during the duration of
celebration. In some prisons, the family of officers also take part in the
various programs, adding colour to the events.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitNSF0mOI6SMtrskco0bOFJ38BQIdJZbqTeCDyS5qYfFjUMvHQx_nOXoTaWxlwkvAtqzUYfN-Ye9anWDYuDh56fhPo5n2No2blLIZxb1mrT9qyMH__Cnu-zyruW2LtfJFSy5arSYyWSUA/s1600/10tvrkr01-PomfrGLM2R2SL13jpgjpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="660" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitNSF0mOI6SMtrskco0bOFJ38BQIdJZbqTeCDyS5qYfFjUMvHQx_nOXoTaWxlwkvAtqzUYfN-Ye9anWDYuDh56fhPo5n2No2blLIZxb1mrT9qyMH__Cnu-zyruW2LtfJFSy5arSYyWSUA/s320/10tvrkr01-PomfrGLM2R2SL13jpgjpg.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another welfare measure is
allowing the relatives and friends of inmates to visit them. The prisoners can
make phone calls to their houses every week and talk to their relatives and
advocates. They can also meet them every month. Paroles, leaves and furloughs
are other welfare measures which we give to deserving inmates. All inmates who
completed a fixed initial tenure are eligible to apply for home leave for 30
days. After the initial leave, they can apply every six months to go on parole.
In addition, they are eligible for emergency leaves also. This gives them an
opportunity to get back to the society and lead normal lives with their near
and dear ones. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Within the prisons,
inmates are divided into ‘gangs’ depending on the work they do. Those who do
similar work are often housed together too for the sake of convenience. The
best among them are selected to function as leaders in each block and also at
places of work. Attached to the central and open prisons there are units for
carpentry, weaving, printing, handicrafts, shoe making, dress making,
toy/jewellery making, cooking and other small skills units. The general name
given to the buildings which have these units is “Manufactory.” There are
instructors and trainers posted especially to impart training and supervise
various works. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A system called
‘remission’ is also available to convicts by which inmates become eligible to
get reduction in the total sentence period because of the good work they do
inside prisons. As an incentive to being a disciplined, obedient and hardworking
person, they get up to 32 days a year as remission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition for exemplary behavior they get
extra 15 days remission per year. The Superintendent of Prisons can further
give a convict special remission for 30 days a year for extraordinary services
offered by an inmate within prisons such as teaching skills to others, saving
life of a co-prisoner or an officer, excellent output in work, helping prison
officers to carry out emergency duties etc. DG Prisons can give up to 60 days
special remission to a convict for exemplary conduct. For release of life term
prisoners, advisory boards are constituted to meet every quarter and submit
recommendations to the government considering the character and conduct of
eligible convicts who completed a minimum term of 14 years of sentence within
prisons. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Open prisons are places
where the convicts are not locked up inside cells even in the night time.
Instead, they are housed in dormitories and there will be guards only on the
periphery to prevent escapes. In the two open prisons for men and one open
prison for women, only those convicts of proven good character and who had
spent a minimum of three years in the central prison are sent. Once in open prison,
they get more frequent paroles, more wages for their work and more freedom to
move around within the premises. The facilities in open prisons, especially the
canteen, kitchen and skilling are better too. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite the care we,
prison officers take, to see that there is no recidivism I have noticed one
particular lady prisoner coming back again and again to the same prison. She
gets arrested within a week of her formal release for the same offense of
selling cannabis. We have given her training in various skills and also gave
her grant and loan to start her own stitching centre, but she spends that money
to procure cannabis. After a lot of coaxing she said to me, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I don’t want to be out.
The society outside is horrible. There are traps all around. Men hurt and harm
me. My family has disowned me. The stigma is too much to bear outside. Here, I feel
safe. I get security and good sleep. So I intentionally commit crimes in the
open and tip off police myself to get arrested. I never defend myself in courts
too. I like to be in this prison, madam.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was shocked at her
response. But then she was speaking the truth. Within the prison, she has
friends which she cannot find in the society. I always feel that there should
be homes for rehabilitating released woman prisoners where they would feel safe
and secure. Those who do not have any family or who fear the predators from
harming them should be able to sleep peacefully in those homes till they are
confident enough to go out into the society and start living by themselves.
Sadly, it is said, once a prisoner, always a prisoner! </span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PRISON DIARIES (3)</span></u></b></div>
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<i><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Education and Skilling</span></u></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
is commonly said that a man commits violence for two things- money and women. I
am not too sure about the women part though I have seen crimes happening
apparently over issues connected with women, but money or lack of it is one
predominant cause for crimes happening all over the world. People do crimes on
the spur of the moment too, on sudden provocation or under the influence of
prohibited substances. But if he is sufficiently educated, he will not be
provoked enough to commit violent crimes even under the influence of drugs and
alcohol. That is why education and skilling are given a lot of importance in
prison administration.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whatever
be the reason they have committed the crime, correctional education is given in
prisons with the sole purpose of reforming him, making him mend his ways so
that he understands the gravity of the offense committed, accepts his mistakes
and repent it. Previously prison officers used to decide what sort of training
each prisoner gets and his interests were never taken into consideration. What will
happen if an inmate who has an aptitude for animal rearing gets intensive
training in carpentry and is made to work in that unit in prison? He is very
unlikely to enjoy or even learn carpentry well and each second of his work
there will make him angry at the lopsided system. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX2m1c2FOy7fiDKI8IzLg8OM83APrloCedF3I4F1EAc53HdnsbRBOtgfKbeFzlZEetGMBC40pC-_DIDTOulgUxB_ae4AGL9jD51-rSoG77eQRo4XGoFyr218TqPOluJLNv0VjLk_2xdmE/s1600/12920405_1749390538631145_1286409887958951899_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="448" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX2m1c2FOy7fiDKI8IzLg8OM83APrloCedF3I4F1EAc53HdnsbRBOtgfKbeFzlZEetGMBC40pC-_DIDTOulgUxB_ae4AGL9jD51-rSoG77eQRo4XGoFyr218TqPOluJLNv0VjLk_2xdmE/s320/12920405_1749390538631145_1286409887958951899_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So we started calling for
willingness of inmates in the various skill modules. We also asked if they
would like to learn a new skill which is not there in our programme. Selection
of prisoners for each course was taken after taking into consideration their
interests also. If a person wants to work in the “Food for Freedom” (FFF) unit,
which is the prison’s in-house food making unit then we choose him for that.
Many inmates have expressed their desire to learn cooking and work in chappathy
(Indian flat bread) units and bakeries. Later I learned that the aroma of bread
baking stimulates release of endorphins (a hormone) which makes them feel good!
New skills were introduced also with intention to market the end products so
that prison department could also generate some income for the government.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A new skill introduced was
beautician course. To those who expressed interest to imbibe the skills of a
beautician or masseur were imparted training on that. Now we have beauty
parlours in the compound of three prisons with expert barbers and beauticians
taking care of the grooming needs of the public. We have named these beauty
parlours “Phoenix”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Phoenix outlet
in Kannur Central Prison alone fetches revenue of Rs 7 lakhs a month. I was
amazed to see convicts who were sentenced for murder and dacoity wielding dangerous
tools such as knife, scissors and razors to serve the public who sit trustingly
before them with eyes closed to get a haircut or shave. Soon there will be a
Phoenix parlour for women too; we have already given training to over 15 women
inmates on these fine skills. To some inmates who expressed a desire to learn
fashion designing and tailoring, we gave training in that. Handloom is a
traditional skill established within prisons since its inception. We make
cotton and linen cloth in bulk. It is with this cloth that the white uniform
for inmates is made. We also make indigenously the bed sheets and pillow
covers, floor mats, blankets and durries for internal consumption. After
skilling the inmates in fashion technology, we created different types of cloth
in our mills and are now making latest fashion shirts and kurtas, ladies dress
and night dress, good quality bed linen and floor mats for selling them through
our outlet in the capital city which my able predecessor named as “Free
Fashionista.”(FF) See how each unit has the words ‘free’ or ‘freedom’
associated with it? These skills are the tools which will give freedom in its
purest sense to the prisoners. Freedom of choice, freedom to learn a new trade,
freedom to work in a career they will be interested in after their jail term
and working in these units are the keys towards getting freedom earlier than
expected. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, how that is possible,
you may ask. Let me explain.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Convicts in jail are
eligible to get remission in sentence if their conduct is good and if they work
well in their chosen trade within prisons. As per the Prison Act & Rules,
the Superintendant of prisons can give two days per every month as remission
and extra two days every quarter for exemplary work. For some inmates who have
put in services which are above the normal work, remission up to 60 days per
year can be given. Remission does not mean sudden ending of the sentence, but
reduction in the total term of sentence of a prisoner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_G8apiiApWgG9e_zRdtPnZUvz7PJVRn1kCuKSwNQfLneUgtxk3Ns2iZ9gkWrXMVn-wUiwjXC-sz8p3LQ-bNjLYq9vF6qp8XeIpkZoxoiuMVx8_3TZDSlhmtJCrHtIpXi7HE04hppszhQ/s1600/Art+of+living+course+-2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_G8apiiApWgG9e_zRdtPnZUvz7PJVRn1kCuKSwNQfLneUgtxk3Ns2iZ9gkWrXMVn-wUiwjXC-sz8p3LQ-bNjLYq9vF6qp8XeIpkZoxoiuMVx8_3TZDSlhmtJCrHtIpXi7HE04hppszhQ/s320/Art+of+living+course+-2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We now give special training
on over 20 different skills including electrical wiring, plumbing, carpentry,
computer hardware, metallurgy, shoe making, screen printing, book binding,
animal husbandry, organic farming, aqua farming, soap/lotion making, candle
making, handicrafts, driving, music and musical instruments, construction work
and the like. There is a unit of the Central Polytechnic at the Central Prisons
for continued skilling. Those who pass tests are issued certificates with
photographs which alone is sufficient for them to get good employment once they
get released. This certificate does not mention where this training was given
or whether the trained were in prison or not. In the past 20 months, over 120
people, after release from the jails, have obtained employment which fetch them
daily wage of around 900 rupees a day. Several people have started their own
entrepreneurships too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Around 40 women
convicts were given training on driving two, three and four wheelers and 24
were given driving licences after tests conducted within jail premises. Of
those who got their licenses, two women are driving ‘she taxis’ after their
release and one lady started her own driving school. Two ladies now drive
autorikshaws which they purchased with loans raised with the help of prison
officers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Apart from skilling,
formal education is another important factor that we take care to give the
convicts. Now, there is a wing of the Kerala University functioning within the
Central Prison in Trivandrum to cater to the educational requirements of
inmates. We allow the prisoners to pursue various courses and write public
examinations. Those who have not completed school due to financial or other
difficulties are taught lessons and exams conducted within prisons. Adult
educations, teaching of regional language to prisoners from outside the state
and English to those who require it are also going on in full swing. There are
prisoners who are pursuing even PG courses, professional courses such as LLB
and one research scholar within the prisons in this state.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksevE3dubOIaujsHy3a8B7IkKFo1pPmbdDOwMO4rRYZJb2IRM_dXdunv7RsxE3z-_WEjh6wpSEniqJwuglT2JwtVo7RKNwhPfTGAYdT6ha-LiRI-974lMwNwoute34cEcrOfNXTi99NY/s1600/nettipattom.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksevE3dubOIaujsHy3a8B7IkKFo1pPmbdDOwMO4rRYZJb2IRM_dXdunv7RsxE3z-_WEjh6wpSEniqJwuglT2JwtVo7RKNwhPfTGAYdT6ha-LiRI-974lMwNwoute34cEcrOfNXTi99NY/s320/nettipattom.JPG" width="320" /></a>Yet another area which has
been drastically developed is library. The Central prisons alone have over
50,000 books in each library. We have obtained the library grant to purchase
the books needed by the inmates. We teach library science to those interested.
We are in the process of fully digitising the libraries too. In Trivandrum
Central Prison, there are ‘kindles’ available for prisoners which they can take
to their cells and read even after the lights are shut off. In each kindle,
over 16,000 books are loaded. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Every week we have people
from various NGOs and religious outfits coming into the prison to impart moral
and religious education to inmates too. Counselling sessions, legal aid clinic
and other welfare activities like Jail Days, TV/Film clubs, debate clubs,
musical clubs, drama and sports activities- they all work towards learning and
reform of prisoners. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWIlWtj7llq8FIRW5HEa2qDpsepDDVm4t5JCU00-C4s09kFk_TlBiD-FpDuJy-kmWB6ZFtGqX60a3861CytpL3SgvLw30R34uIqjJR3HPNamMjlo_XQCNQ_cTvIGwLJ50cKokG1vFkAw/s1600/chappathy+2.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1600" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWIlWtj7llq8FIRW5HEa2qDpsepDDVm4t5JCU00-C4s09kFk_TlBiD-FpDuJy-kmWB6ZFtGqX60a3861CytpL3SgvLw30R34uIqjJR3HPNamMjlo_XQCNQ_cTvIGwLJ50cKokG1vFkAw/s320/chappathy+2.JPG" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Previously, the inmates in
District Jail, Special Sub Jails and Sub Jails were never taken out of their
cells except for their biological needs in the morning which has caused a lot
of problems among cell mates. As per the Act & Rules only convicted
prisoners are eligible for wages for employment within prisons. So only the
convicts will be taken out of lock up. Being locked up in cells when the sun
shines outside is a horrible thing. The emotional strain and the congestion as
well as the foul air with in used to lead to frequent problems in these prisons
where under trial prisoners and remanded accused are housed. Cliques will be
formed and they fight against each other. Professional criminals teach novices
the subtle art of crime and shares stories of how they evaded police and
arrest. They plan prison breaks. And in the night time, they indulge in gay
sex. Sometimes indoor games such as snake and ladder, caroms etc are given to
them. They fight over that too.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An idle mind is devil’s
workshop. So I issued an order that even under trial/ remand prisoners should
be taken out of prisons and made to do some activity or the other. Now people
go to these jails to teach inmates small skills such as paper bag making,
umbrella making and handicrafts. Women prisoners are given training on toy and jewellery
making. They are made to exercise and play some outdoor games. In the available
spaces within the compound, vegetable cultivation has been encouraged. One Sub
Jail now grows grapes and other exotic fruits in the ground next to the
kitchen. In a special sub jail, an artificial pond has been made and fish
farming is an activity there. Some prisoners love to do work in the kitchen, so
breakfast items such as idly, puttu etc are prepared in large quantities for
sales through Freedom Food Factory outlets. When these inmates are made to work
for 8 to 9 hours every day, it gives them a lot of relief from boredom. They
learn new things and interact positively to farming and other activities. They
do not sit and sulk in a cell corner any more, but are a happier lot. There is
considerably less in fighting or gay sex reported these days. Several inmates
have told me that they do not require anti depressants or sleeping pills after
they started working outside in the compounds. Also, the visits of psychiatrists
to the prisons got reduced once we introduced this system. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6T36vWIRhuQcW1y89Xk8m2S1aRnhMwyJvMncr7ERu2dtZwVE_qLTXLE6JgL60RodvbHrP_RnczyV_RDT4Skm3FFwuIJLWQQN1OC3KYh_JZaNIBOG8CrZuvT56VXw70o9j9br8mvpi4Q/s1600/bedsheet+making.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6T36vWIRhuQcW1y89Xk8m2S1aRnhMwyJvMncr7ERu2dtZwVE_qLTXLE6JgL60RodvbHrP_RnczyV_RDT4Skm3FFwuIJLWQQN1OC3KYh_JZaNIBOG8CrZuvT56VXw70o9j9br8mvpi4Q/s320/bedsheet+making.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is sad to see very
young males coming to the prisons in pathetic conditions of withdrawal symptoms.
Boys as young as 18 and 19 with severe anxiety, depression and other symptoms
related to drug withdrawal get arrested and they create turmoil within the
cells. Sometimes they cause injuries to themselves by beating their heads
against the bars or walls or biting their hands. The prison officers are not
trained enough to handle such cases. Prolonged drug abuse also makes them
mentally unstable. I always feel that the Excise Department should have a
system or special programme with NGOs or Youth Commission and start targeting the
youth in creating awareness about drugs so that this problem will not rise to
menacing levels. Recently, a 19 year old boy who had severe withdrawal symptoms
died in the hospital cell of the Medical College and his parents refused to
accept his body! Not because they have any complaints against police or jail
officers, but because they simply didn’t want him. “This boy has always been a
terrible nuisance beating up even his parents. We disowned him long back. Why
should we bother to accept him after his death? We don’t have any money for his
burial.” His uncle told when we went to enquire why no one came to accept his
body. </span></div>
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Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-44835118240298329432018-09-05T05:42:00.003-07:002018-09-05T05:43:22.348-07:00PRISON DIARIES (2) Humble Initiatives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PRISON DIARIES (2)</span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
tradition to thrash convicts at the prison gate itself is followed as a
technique to instil discipline in them. In the 53 prisons in Kerala, there
reside 8500 inmates on an average with just 400 officers to manage them, so a
thorough beating the moment you enter the prison will make them submissive and
obey each and every diktat of the officer in charge. The first initiative I
took was to stop this horrible tradition. I had to issue two written orders,
one banning canes within the prison and the other strictly prohibiting any sort
of violence by officers against inmates other than the bare minimum needed in
case of an emergency. I further installed CCTV cameras at all the gates and
examination rooms of prisons (each prisoner is subjected to detailed body examination
to prevent prohibited articles such as drugs, mobile phones etc being
transported inside since we do not have body scanners) in order to protect the
prisoners from third degree methods. In the beginning, there were protests even
from my senior officers that there will be incidents of violence among
prisoners and against staff. Initially when I stopped this practice, a few
instances where prison officers got attacked by some inmates were reported. On
deeper enquiry, it was revealed that the aggressors were either mental patients
or those undergoing withdrawal symptoms. In normal situations, they would not
have attacked officers in uniform.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At
a recent meeting with the Principal Accountant General who reviewed security of
the prisons in the state, he asked me why I have not taken any steps to procure
sophisticated arms and ammunition for the officers in the department. “We don’t
need any.” My reply shocked him as well as the others in the conference hall.
“Oh? So how can you prevent a jail break? How do you enforce discipline?” He
queried. “We will deal with it when it happens.” I replied as he raised his
brows. There are unwieldy 302 rifles for the men which we use in ceremonial
parades and for guard duty. The officers do not have any revolvers or pistol
for their use. Maybe small arms can serve their purpose in case of an
emergency, but we definitely do not require SLR, INSAS or AK 47 for prison
duties in Kerala. The only escape from a jail in the state during my tenure was
from the dilapidated building in Pathanamthitta district jail. A new jail is
under construction there, so timely repair of the broken iron mesh high up in a
barrack’s toilet was not carried out to save costs. One late night, two Biharis
who were arrested by the Excise officials for possessing narcotics, climbed
over the wall of the toilet, wriggled through the broken wire mesh and got out
of their cell. Once out in the compound they scaled the 10 feet wall by
climbing a tree adjacent to it. Neither the person on duty at the gate nor the
guard who was supposed to watch the CCTV footage noticed it. The other inmates
were also oblivious to this escape since they were as quiet as cats. No sophisticated
weapons could have prevented this escape. These prisoners are still at large,
most probably back in Bihar.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
next thing my mind went to was the prison cells per se, especially the toilet
attached to it. Around 15 people are supposed to use one toilet in the night
time when they are locked up. How hygienic that will be? I suffer from obsessive
compulsive disorder for cleanliness. My son calls me a cleanliness monster,
even tiny specs of dust on the washbasin makes me spend an hour scrapping it
clean. So, on my jail visits I walk into the cells and the toilets, much to the
shock of officers and embarrassment of prisoners. Broken toilets were replaced,
faulty drainage unclogged, doors repaired and lotions supplied in abundance at
each cell. After all, we manufacture phenyl and detergents within the prisons,
so I insisted that we sell them only after the needs of the prisoners are
properly met. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet another thing I
noticed was the bare feet of prisoners. I still have the desire to provide
every inmate with slippers free of cost, but the present budget does not allow
me this. So, I ordered the prison canteens to be stocked with slippers also for
inmates to buy and use. A word about prison canteens will not be amiss. In all
major prisons we have a small in-house canteens managed by selected prisoners
themselves. These canteens sell snacks such as biscuits, chips, savouries,
pastries, soaps, towels, shaving cream, razors, ice cream and other urgent
amenities that the inmates require in addition to what is supplied to them by
the department. Out of the total wages they earn a month from doing the various
jobs and activities while in custody, they can spend up to one third at the
canteens or for making phone calls. Most of these canteens run at a profit and
at a few places, the profit margin itself runs to over a few lakh (one hundred
thousand) rupees! Slippers also became a commodity in all canteens and now all
inmates use them when they step out of their cells.</span></div>
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another unclean thing that I saw was wasted food. I have been noticing cats aplenty
within the prison walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The officers
and inmates explained that cats are good pets to relieve stress and tension and
many people love their presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
noticed crows and pigeons too in large numbers. An early morning visit revealed
why these animals loved to roam around the prison compounds. Food! Strangely,
the diet of prisoners is decided in the Prison Rules by the quantity per
person. Every one, irrespective of their age, gender or physical requirements
are provided 200 grams wheat flour/rice flour worth cooked idly, dosa,
chappathi or upma as breakfast, 250 gram rice cooked for lunch and 200 gram
rice/wheat worth cooked food as dinner with curries and other side dishes. Not
everyone are able to consume this much food, so they throw the balance out of
their vents in cells. The cats and birds line up at the back of the cells to
eat this and in this process, the entire area gets scattered with food waste. A
proposal to regulate diet based on quality is yet to come through, but a buffet
system has now been introduced, allowing the inmates to self service so that we
could save both food and money. Kerala being a state where non vegetarian
dishes are served three times a week to inmates, this however resulted in a mad
rush of prisoners to get more mutton and fish on their plates till instructions
were given to serve non veg under supervision. </span></div>
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another problem relating to cleanliness was sorted out by installing biogas and
incinerators in all major prisons. Instead of boiled water which used to take
up a lot of kitchen work and LPG usage, Reverse Osmosis plants at the central
prisons now supply pure drinking water and cooking water. Even when the whole
of Kerala suffered spurts of outbreaks of dengue, </span><span class="st"><span lang="EN-IN">malaria, leptospirosis and hepatitis A and B in 2017, none of the
inmates got affected by any virus because of the clean environment in jails.</span></span></div>
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for the aged and disabled. I saw many elderly convicts and those with even bad disabilities
sleeping on the floor. While in a handful of jails, concrete structures
resembling a bed are inbuilt within the cells, in other prisons, all inmates
sleep on mats on the floor. Overcrowding is a major problem in some prisons here
too. In the space available for 4 persons, sometimes 12 persons are made to
sleep. If there is an arthritis patient among them, it will be an arduous task
for him to even turn to one side to ease his aching joints. The excuse again
was- “If we put cots, it will occupy more space. Mats occupy less space.”
Florence Nightingale is remembered for her untiring and selfless service to
injured war veterans, but I always remember her quote that her biggest success
in life was because she neither gave nor took any excuses. The real reason for
stacking up inmates was the lack of adequate infrastructure. Kerala prisons
have excellent carpentry units. We make furniture and sell it outside. I
ordered them to make 6” x 4” cots, if possible 2 tier cots for the use in
prison cells. Now at each prison we have at least one block provided with cots
to house inmates above the age of 60 and the disabled. In all hospital blocks
and women prisons, cots are already given, but slowly and steadily we hope to
provide cots to all inmates in prisons.</span></span></div>
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these horrible criminals with so much kindness. It is because I have seen the
other side of crime. If you think that all the bad people who commit various
heinous crimes in the society are within the prisons, think again. If you think
that all people within the prison cells are most horrible criminals, please
think again. Undeniably, some are bad, very bad. Murderers, paedophiles,
rapists, serial killers… all kinds of terrible persons are there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their guilt is proven beyond doubt and they
are sentenced to spend their balance life in prisons. But that doesn’t mean
that their incarceration should be torture and we should subject them to a dose
of daily dose of harassment. Government spends a lot of money to keep these bad
people away from the society in order to keep up the peace, law and order among
the public. But they are taken care of too. They are under government’s care
and protection. Their safety and security as well as their correction are the
business of prison officers. We are duty bound to see that they get reformed
and corrected from their bad ways so that they can go back, in case they do, to
their families and lead productive lives. Even a condemned prisoner is given a
chance to reform and repent and learn new things. At least they should be
allowed to go to the gallows resigned with a heart purified with repentance and
reconciliation!</span></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">PRISON DIARIES</span></u></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hello dears. My friends are asking me about my experience heading Prisons Department in Kerala.
Whether I am happy working here, and what new changes I have brought in the
department and the like. If I give a full account, it will run into a thesis
paper. So, I am splitting it into parts for ease of reading. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me start at the beginning. </span></i></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Beginning</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Recently
I read</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">a book in which a strange
idea was mooted. We should have islands to send convicted criminals to. All
murderers should be sent to one island where they can murder each other, all
rapists to another island for doing rape to each other, all thieves to yet another
island, let them steal among themselves! I laughed a lot reading it, yet
history is replete with instances such as these. Australia was a place where
the British Empire sent its criminals away! That way, we could have saved a lot
of money which we now spent for infrastructure, security, salary to prison
officers and staff as well as education, correction and rehabilitation of
inmates, not to mention their food, clothing and medicine.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a common
misconception among the public that Prisons & Correctional Service is a
branch under the Police Department and that the officers working at prisons are
police officers. It was created as a wing separate from the police department
under the Home Ministry because the roles of police and prison officers are so different
from each other. As a police officer, one of my duties for the 31 years in the
police department had been to detect crime cases, arrest the criminals with
clinching evidence against him/her/them and present the evidence before the
concerned courts to ensure a just punishment. I never bothered about the
situation or circumstances of the criminal, the social issues he must have had,
the traps which he might have fallen into or his hunger or financial crunch. It
never bothered me too if he rotted in prisons or not. He committed a crime, let
him suffer- was my mentality like everyone else. Off and on in our lives, we
get some sparks from somewhere. Hey and presto, one such spark, a wish to get
posted in the prison department which only God knows sprouted from where, got
granted and here I am, now with over 20 months of experience as Director
General, Prisons & Correctional Services Kerala. And each day, I feel as if
it is not just a career or duty that I am doing, it’s a great social service
and charity too! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Traditionally, prisons are
abhorrent, abominable places. Dark, damp, despondent. No one would like to even
spend a day there, let alone a life time. Yet, thousands of people are
sentenced to spend their life time within the bars of prisons in our country.
Because they committed crimes most heinous. Because they are a threat to the
society and should be kept away from peace loving people. Because it is a
punishment. There was a time when incarceration was the least of the problems
for a convict. The physical and mental torture that break him to his last bones
ensures that he will never ever have a normal life. Within a month of my taking
charge as head of prisons in Kerala in January 2017, I received two complaints,
one relating to a sub jail in the south and the other to a district jail in the
central Kerala. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A single mother, a
professor in a reputed college was in tears when she explained that her only
son, an engineering student was arrested for possession of a few grams of
cannabis and he was stripped naked and beaten up black and blue at the prison.
The boy who got bail in two days slashed his wrist with a razor out of utter
desolation and shame. She rushed him to a hospital and saved his life, but he
keeps murmuring that he will kill himself. She wanted me to punish the men who
resorted to this third degree method on her son. Sad part is that, the boy
could not recognize who beat him, once he was taken to the jail. He kept
shaking as if in fits and refused to raise his head. The mental trauma was too
much for him! I took action against those who were on duty during the day he
was beaten up and also issued a direction to stop this practice of stripping
and beating those who step inside the prison gates. In Malayalam, the name used
to refer to this is ‘nadayadi’, meaning beating at the gate. The Superintendent
of this prison tried to justify this saying, “We do it so that the criminals
will not repeat such offenses in future!” Shocked at this attitude, I shouted
at him but later realized that everyone in the department was of the same mentality.
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The second instance was
when a woman called me over phone to say that the officer on duty at the prison
gate where her son was remanded to judicial custody took her gold necklace as
bribe since she was not carrying much money with her for not beating up the
boy. She asked, “He took even my thali (mangalyasutra) Madam. Will you ask him
to at least return my thali?” Another shock to me. So these people resort to
beating up for money. So that they can demand huge amounts to spare the rod! I
placed that officer under suspension and initiated disciplinary action. But how
many can you suspend? We need officers to manage the prisons. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We spend money to give
correctional training to the inmates, but actually, training should be given to
prison officers teaching them human rights and ethics. Train them how not to
break a man to smithereens inside out. I thought that in my state things would
be better than this. As ADGP in Vigilance, I had observed that among the
government departments, the least number of complaints and allegations were from
prison department. In some years not even a single complaint relating to
prisons comes. I was happy to assume charge in a department which got its
sur-name ‘Correctional Services’ and remember thinking with a chuckle that I am
happy it is not ‘corruption’ al services! I have to admit that only a handful of
prison officers are bad. Most of them are very hard-working, dedicated and sincere
officers. I pity most of them too because they so constantly interact with
negativity which can sometimes affect our own minds. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first thing I noticed
when I visited a prison under me was the smell. I have a sensitive nose. That
smell is distinct to prison cells alone. This smell is there in the open
prisons and the cleaner women’s prisons too. It’s not the smell of 15 sweaty men
huddled up in a cell room or that they have to share a toilet, it is not even
because of unwashed cloths or old bedding, but it is the smell of despondency.
Lack of freedom scares a person; it is the biggest bane of a human being. Even
if it’s a golden cage, a bird hates to be caged. Similarly whatever facilities
we give the prisoners, the fact that they are put inside a cell and a lock is
firmly put on its door scares them. Despite the presence of others, they do not
sleep well. Thoughts of despair hound them. Even normal people become mental
wrecks within a week of incarceration. It is in addition to this that they get
beaten up too. Violence inside the prison against each other also is the result
of this despondency. Cliques are formed, a leader gets elected and they try to
create a microcosmic goonda-land inside prisons just for some vague
satisfaction of identity. It is quite bad. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What can I do? Stalwarts
have worked as Prison Heads before me. Still, sometimes the conditions are so
bad that even they would have been helpless, I thought. But something has to be
done. At the central prison in Trivandrum, one inmate said, “Madam, can you do
something? We admit we are criminals. We are here for offenses dome by us. But
the moment we get out after our sentence is served; a police jeep will be
waiting for us outside the prison gates. It will pick us up and we’ll be taken
straight to the police station. They then interrogate us and arrest us again
for offenses not committed by us, because once we did similar crimes and we
come back here again. We would hardly know about those cases which police
charge us with. Most of the times, we do not get any chance to explain or even
speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the police, a few more cases
got solved. Can you stop this?” I remember getting a bad taste in my mouth. How
do the police know the release date of such convicts unless the prison officers
tell them? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Madam, every day we get
calls from the local police stations asking us details of convicts getting
released that day,” came the reply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Don’t tell them.” I instructed. “If we don’t, then they will not come
to take prisoners to courts or hospitals.” Another weak explanation. While it
is the duty of police officers to escort prisoners to courts and hospitals as
her the Prison Act, the Act or Rules does not mention that it is the prison
officer’s duty to inform the police station regarding prisoner’s release dates.
I immediately issued orders prohibiting prison officers to divulge unnecessary
information to anyone unless they ask for it in writing and the head of
department approves the sharing of information. A prison sentence should not
make a person live with a lifelong stigma or the tag that he is a habitual
modus operandi criminal even after his release. Not after we take so much
effort to correct him and educate him with vocational skills so that he will
never indulge in crime again in the society. Still things needed to change so
much! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nature's Wrath </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">vs Human Benevolence</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The last fortnight in the small state of Kerala in India was a huge, continuing nightmare for most people. God's own state saw a fury of nature hitherto unseen. Rain poured down from the open skies in tumultuous torrents drenching the earth up to its soluble levels and then poured out from its rim. Ponds, rivers, lakes, wells and dams started to sprout out water </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">excessively since their stomachs too were full. Fearing a bigger calamity, shutters of some dams had to be opened which added to the fury of gushing water on the land. Much to our mute shock, we saw trees getting uprooted, hills getting flattened and mud thrown off its peaks, houses tumbling down to the ground and people fleeing in an exodus seeking refuge in safer place leaving everything behind. Hundreds of humans, thousands of beasts perished in this deluge; fields of crops, vegetables and fruits got destroyed in acres. Panicked cries could be heard from atop the houses from people whose houses got submerged in four to seven feet of sudden angry slush. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then we saw another beautiful sight. The goodness of the human heart rising with a force surpassing the fury of rain and the flood. Millions of people rushed to the rescue of their fellow beings regardless of the myriad difficulties they themselves were facing. Rafts were built, fishing boats were carried inland, food, medicine, cloths and support poured from far and wide. Thousands of precious lives were saved. This wave of warmth that rose from the human heart still flows aplenty in this state. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The police department was one which did yeomen service at this time of need. Neither the officers nor the men had any formal training in rescue operations in situations such as this, of such grand scale natural calamity. Regardless of everything else, we saw the most efficient co-ordination, communication, management and operation of rescue by police, assisted effectively by the Revenue department, Fire Force and allied government departments. The government could call in perfect time central forces such as </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NDRF, ITBP, BSF, Army, Navy and Air Force personnel from their units within the state. Motor boats, rubber dingies, choppers were all operational in their full blast as commanded and controlled by the police. The rest is history, a feat which will be remembered in eternity as one of the best tasks the police department ever carried out in our state. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
Prisons department also did their bit of service during the
Kerala deluge. "അണ്ണാറക്കണ്ണനും തന്നാലായത്!" (the squirrel also doing its best) All the inmates volunteered to work extra hours in the
kitchen in various prisons to make food for rescue and relief camps. The department supplied over 20,000
packets of food and 50,000 bottles of water each day during from 16th to 27th August at the various camps as well as the cleaning areas post deluge. A matter of surprise was that the </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">officials</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and personnel of NDRF, ITBP, Army, Navy and
Fire Force demanded jail chappathies and curry for their requirement. We
supplied packets of 5 chappathies and vegetable/chicken Kuruma to them also in large numbers. <span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show">The jail inmates willingly contributed from their meager wages towards the CM's relief fund which
is yet to be handed over. The process is still going on. The prison officers too chipped in to provide
cloths, bed sheets, pillow covers and essential articles at the various camps. We provided hot kanji to elderly people all nights in the
Thrissur shelter. Prison's 'Freedom Food Factory' and Bakery units worked
untiringly to feed breads, cakes, biscuits, chips and other snacks to those hungry ones at the camps. Various students who were busy with packing and distributing articles also tasted food made in prisons. I thank all the officers, staff and inmates of
the department of Prisons for this humongous work.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Attached below a news
which appeared in Times of India which talks of the activities carried out
by the prisons in Trivandrum. Similar work was carried out by other
Central Prisons, Open Prisons and District Prisons also, but the press as usual downplayed this department's initiatives. No worries, we didn't do it for publicity anyway. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Among the
inmates there are over 500 people who are experts in electrical wiring,
plumbing, masonry, drainage work and other construction work. They
expressed their willingness to go to the places where houses were
damaged and carry out various cleaning/repair works free of cost. Due to
security issues, I have not allowed it so far. But our trainee prison
officers were at Pathanamthitta District yesterday and today, cleaning
up the flood hit residential areas and the relief camps. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Not all people inside the bars
within the prison are bad. Most of them repent crimes committed by them
and desire to serve the society especially in times such as these!</span></span></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Time to Stop this Yearly <i>Crime</i>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Attukal temple in Trivandrum, Kerala has again become the
cynosure of all eyes now. The temple festival has started last week and devoted
women all around the world has gone into a fasting mode. This temple is
referred to sometimes as the ‘Lady’s Sabarimala’ erroneously. While women of
certain age groups are banned near Sabarimala, men of every age group throng
around Attukal Temple during “Pongala.” So, hardly akin to Sabarimala! But what
about children? Can we call it Boy’s Prison Cell?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Little girls are decked up and made to wear a crown, carry a with
lit lamp and other things and just paraded around. Harmless! But for 1000 odd
boys, it’s torture time in Attukal now. Parents conspire with temple
authorities to put their children through rigorous mental and physical abuse
for five days where boys from the age of 5 to 12 are made to wear just a loin
cloth, submerge in cold water thrice daily, eat measly morsels squatting on the
floor and sleep on the bare temple ground. Yes, recite mantras and obey blindly
their leaders too. They are not allowed to see their parents during this time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And on the final day, each of them will be decked up with
yellow cloths, garlands, jewellery and make up on face including lipstick and made
to stand in a queue for their last unexpected torture. An iron hook, tiny though it is, will be
pierced into their skin on their flanks. They scream. Blood comes out. A thread
will be symbolically knotted through the hooks to symbolise their bond with
divinity. Then hooks are pulled out and ash roughly applied on the wounds! All
this for temple deity! Parents may feel relieved that their boys will now grow
up to be disciplined kids and do well in their studies. Will the kids too feel
the same? And how will our dear Attukal Amma be feeling?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most of the boys will not be informed about any of these
tortures when parents take them from home to the temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Causing physical and mental pain to children
are offences under sections 89, 319, 320, 349, 350, 351 of Indian Penal Code. The
Juvenile Justice Act and the Child Welfare Commission Act penalises it. Who
will complain? Parents will not, those who see it will not since they have no
locus standi. Will a child complain? How will he even know that a crime has
been committed on him? And I found everyone with whom I talked knew about this
torture on children, but did or are planning to do nothing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This has been going on for decades! At this temple there were
animal sacrifices long back, it seems. In the beautiful coffee table Book of my
friend Lekshmy Rajeev, “Attukal Amma- the goddess of millions”, there is
mention that this crude practice is still followed in the temple because the
authorities believe that “Devi likes blood!” God, who decides what Devi’s likes
and dislikes are? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Animal sacrifices exist even now in temples in North India.
Guwahati’s Kamaakhya temple has goats of all age tied up in the temple
premises. At 12 noon, one poor trembling creature is brought to the sacrificial
altar and its neck is chopped off with an axe. Blood spills around. The meat is
then cooked and given as ‘prasad’! I remember the look on those poor goats’s
faces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a devotee of Attukal Amma, I used to offer pongala since
the age of 10, whenever possible. As a 22 year old Post Graduate I prayed once
to Attukal Amma, “Please let me get through the Civil Services Exams which I
plan to write. I will offer you 3 special pongalas for this blessing.” And I
did it with fervour and belief for 3 years. And after my third pongala, I got
into IPS clearing the exams! All my pongalas after that were 'thank you' ones. I
foolishly thought that I bribed the Bhagawathy! All those times, I had seen these poor boys and deeply sympathised with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Last year, the son of my personal security officer was one of
the so called soldiers of the Amma at Attukal. He was looking miserable each
time I saw him in the crowd of boys. All the boys in wet loin cloths bore the
same look of the sacrificial goats of Kamakhya. “Poor thing, why did you do
this against his wish?” I asked the boy’s father. “Madam, I didn’t tell him
about the piercing on the last day. If he knew that he would have run off from
home.” He replied. It came as a shock to me. I never knew till then that these
poor boys will actually be pierced with a hook. I just thought there will be some
symbolic tying up of thread around their waists. All these years I had not seen
any picture in the media of boys being pierced. I had read no reports in any
newspapers about it either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“It’s the same as Garudan Thookkam, where the man’s sides are
pierced,” said a friend when I shared my shock with him. “It’s not,” I replied.
“An adult can choose his torture in his religious belief, but a child won’t and
can’t. It is a crime if it is done on a child for whatever reasons.” He kept
mum. Of course, if he says something it may hurt religious sentiments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A crime is about to happen on hapless kid, the piercing will
take place this year on March 2<sup>nd</sup> evening. I have been requesting
people to stop it ever since I knew about this weird custom. Will it have any
effect? I am not offering pongala this year. Unless there will be a divine
intervention to stop this from happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This time at least, I pray Attukal Amma to save her boy soldiers from getting
physically hurt in Her name!</span></div>
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Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-32084265523694478422017-07-24T01:00:00.001-07:002017-07-24T01:00:57.976-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">I was a little hesitant to pick up this book since being a police officer, I arrogantly thought that I knew all about this incident and the history of Veerappan, so why waste precious time and money to read what I already knew?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">Reading the first few pages of the book on kindle made me realise I was far from knowing anything about Veerappan or his daring escapades or even about the author. This book is not just a depiction of the Jungle brigand alone, it is the portrayal of heroic sacrifice of hundreds of dedicated police officers, officers of the forest department and innocent civilians. It is the story of Mr. Vijayakumar IPS, the reputed encounter specialist, an officer par excellence in all the different fields of policing he has worked, his vision, dreams and its realisation. The kindle pages left me gasping for the book, I just had to read it all, I felt suffocated without the rest of the thrilling saga.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">And it was simply amazing. The narrative, the style, use of language and the depiction surely made this book a page turner till the end which makes one slightly disappointed that it has come to an end. We want great things to go on and on without ending, so I flipped back the pages and re read some parts where the timeline danced around from 1992 to 2004, sometimes the events interposing and dates interloping, oddly adding to the charm of narration.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">Initially one wonders why there were several points of views in the book and why thoughts and feelings were put in inverted commas like conversations. I felt it could have been avoided. Towards the end, it became clear that there was a purpose for both, since the author intended to create several heros in this work, including the antagonist and thoughts, feelings and ruminations of each reflects their character, hence they fall within inverted commas.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">Any autobiographical book will have a central character, a larger than life hero, a daring and admirable personality. Not so in this book. The author lavishes credit and appreciation to all his team members and humbly puts himself as just one of the several players in chase of the cruel bandit, which is quite a rare phenomena. I am sure that that this book, titled after the hunted will find its due place in the annals of Indian Literature since it is just not a case study, but a literary gem too.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">Roopa publishers have done a great job with this book, the rustic cover, the size of the book and its print are excellent.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">I highly recommend this book, it is every bit worth its space in your private library. All police officers should read it too, since we can learn a lot from it. </span></div>
Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-29139216213374527082016-05-04T03:01:00.000-07:002016-05-12T00:51:56.322-07:00I am sorry, Jisha!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In 2014, I wrote with some pride about a project called "Nirbhaya Keralam, Surakshita Keralam", which was entrusted to me by the new Home Minister of Kerala for the safety of women. I am sorry for writing that post. I am sorry I felt happy and privileged then that at last I got a posting whereby I can do the work I always wanted to do- help distressed women. I am sorry I spent 72 hours preparing a project which was approved by the State Government, because the project did not materialise. I am sorry that I witnessed the death of this project when it was just 5 months old! I am sorry, dear Jisha, for probably, had this project been alive, you would still be alive too!<br />
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On February 2014, this project was inaugurated with huge pomp in Ernakulam. I was ADGP in Vigilance & anti-corruption Bureau then. I didn't know then that my shift from there a few days after inauguration of Nirbhaya Keralam had anything to do with some raids I conducted and some cases I registered. I thought, foolishly, that my expertise was required to make Nirbhaya Keralam project a success. I took charge as the one woman team of project Nirbhaya and waited for the state police chief or government to post others or give me a room to sit. After much fighting, I got a room in police head quarters and a confidential assistant who could not type a word in English. My numerous visits to the Minister, Home Secretary and DGP made me hopeful, promises were made. I was asked to go ahead with the recruitment, training and crime mapping of vulnerable areas. I was promised reimbursement of expenses.<br />
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So, I went ahead and conducted a few public meetings, calling women from all over the district and talking about this amazing project that would make them safe and secure. I intended to train 100 women in each district and make them train the other women. I told them that I will give them identity cards, SIM cards, a badge and an overcoat they should wear while on duty, a kit containing information about law and how to connect with police and social welfare department, money for traveling and victim assistance and a remuneration to boot. All this was in my proposal and a budgetary allocation of 77 lakh was given for Nirbhaya Keralam of police department too.<br />
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Ernakulam was selected to start the pilot project and I recruited 99 smart and willing women from the ages between 25 and 55. I started giving them classes on law and unarmed combat and took them to police stations, women's cells, Nirbhaya homes and juvenile homes to familiarise them with women's issues. I prepared a survey questionnaire and taught them how to get information from women in rural areas so that we could find out unreported crimes.<br />
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I also contacted C-DAC and requested them to make an application that can be worn by women as a bracelet, pendant on a chain, a brooch or a watch. Dr Ramani of C-DAC was immensely helpful and the team did develop these things. It was successfully demonstrated before selected women and police officers. I planned to develop these and distribute them free of cost to women who needed them. They had in built GPRS/GPS and with the aid of google map, we could trace the location of the registered user of this gadget at the control room or police station. If the wearer of this gadget gives a long press on its button, an alert will go and the nearest patrol could reach the spot in 5 minutes. I preferred such an application on ornaments because an attacker usually takes the mobile phone of the victim, but he will ever know that she can get assistance by pressing on her jewellery! If Jisha, who was carrying a pen camera, had such a gadget, she would be still alive!<br />
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By the time three months have passed, I was still the only official in the project, money was not coming and I had spent over 60,000 rupees from my pocket! One thing was not lacking though- the number of complaints that were piling up before me. Around 210 persons visited me a week with their problems and I was finding it extremely difficult to help them all. Women thought that I was posted to take care of their personal issues, so a school girl who had crush for some boy, a married woman who had relationship with a married man, a divorcee who wanted back her husband and a woman who feared the neighbour's dog...all poured in seeking my help, while I sat frustrated at the path to doom that Nirbhaya Keralam project was progressing.<br />
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Soon, I found that no one was much interested in any issue relating to women in this state. Or they just didn't care. No support nor funds were there for this project. When the volunteers started to ask me for money and other things, I asked them to wait for some time and reassured that everything will be fine soon. I fought with the poor DGP a couple of times, not realising that he too was helpless in this. He gave me three women police officers to assist me in settling complaints of women who poured in to see me. I wondered what the women's cells, women help desks, women police stations were actually doing if all women from even Kasargod are coming all the way to Trivandrum with hopes that ADGP Nirbhaya ( me) will solve their problems.<br />
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Who will not get frustrated and fed up in such a situation?<br />
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So when the Transport Minister called me to ask whether I was willing to go as Transport Commissioner, I felt relieved and said yes immediately. At that time, the then transport commissioner was on leave and the department needed someone. Soon, there was an order posting me as transport commissioner and Previous transport commissioner as ADGP Nirbhaya. Within a week, he got a transfer as vigilance officer in KSEB and the post become vacant. When another officer returned from central deputation, he was posted there first. But in a week, he too got shifted to the post of ADGP Head quarters. Since July 2014, Nirbhaya project was on a comma, soon, it was buried alive too. Poor, poor Nirbhaya. Poor women Kerala who get raped every often.<br />
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Poor Jisha. Wasn't there a Supreme Court guideline that the victim's name should not be revealed? Wasn't that why Jyoti became Nirbhaya? Jisha has a face and name, thanks to the media, she is not the Kuruppampady girl. Govinda chamies are thriving happily. I am sorry, dear Jisha that you were taken away untimely and so cruelly from this world. I only hope that you are happy and loved in your new world. I also hope that such incidents do not happen again in this state which calls itself God's own.<br />
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I am truly and genuinely sorry!<br />
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Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-14331926103972593932016-03-01T22:57:00.003-08:002016-03-01T22:57:47.174-08:00Inclusive Road Safety<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">In January 2016, in 3688 road accidents, 420 people died! This is an all time record of deaths in one month in Kerala. </span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;">Do you think it is war and terrorism that takes the most of human lives? Wrong! It is road accidents! Shocked to see this figure, I wish to reproduce below the Project I recently presented before the King's College London, for which I received</span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 150%;"> the Chevening Fellowship.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">‘Out of this
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Every year globally, nearly 1.35 million
people- a majority of them pedestrians and two-wheeler riders- die and around
50 million people suffer injuries which account for an important cause of
disability, in road traffic accidents. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>‘Road accidents are the
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in people between the age of 15’-29 as reported by the World Report on Child
Injury Prevention published by UNICEF in 2011 and the UN Global status report
on road safety in 2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>It isestimated that over
260,000 children die and around 400,000 children get orphaned inroad accidents
every year. Even in the USA and European Union countries, where road traffic deaths
are not as alarming as in other countries, one out of five child deaths is
caused by road accidents. It is again pertinent to note that <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>’90% of accidents occur in
South East Asian Countries, Africa and Eastern Mediterranean regions which have
less than two-thirds of the world’s vehicle population’. The rapid increase in
vehicle growth without improving the road infrastructure or planning for better
transportation is one of the reasons for increasing trend in road accident
deaths, but the main reason is still attributed to the state’s lack of a
sustainable and inclusive road safety policy. Economically, road accidents and
deaths are calculated to affect 3% of the global GNP totalling over 500 million
dollars according to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>the annual report of USA National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Road Safety and Annual Report of IRTAD
of OECD and Gov. of UK Dept. for Transport.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The UNRSC (United Nations Road Safety
Collaboration) set up in 2004 under the World Health Organisation has been
involving international organisations, governments, public and private sector
entities as well as NGOs in various road safety mechanisms over the years since
its existence but the situation has hardly changed even after five years of
review of the global scenario of road traffic accidents. In this light, the
resolution 64/2551 of the UN Secretary General in 2010 mandated the countries
to observe ten years from 2011 to 2020 as the ‘UN Decade of Action’ for road
safety, with the goal of stabilizing and reducing road fatalities throughout
the world through increased activities to be conducted at regional, national
and global levels. The UNRSC in its report in 2012 identified <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>‘the four pillars for
evolving road safety strategies which later came to be known as the four Es of
road safety- Engineering, Education, Enforcement and Emergency care’. The
results of the last five years of this decade of action plan for road safety
activities are far disappointing. And now it is time to add one more pillar to
it, environment, since if these four pillars rest on the unstable ground, it
may well collapse.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></b></span></span></span></b></span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">‘The
United Kingdom</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> has one of
the best records of road safety in the world’, according to the policy document
on road safety published by the department for transport in the UK in its
annual report of 2014. The total length of highways in England, Scotland and
Wales is24,076 kilometres and over 85% of all road transport is concentrated on
this road, as per the data available in this paper.The roads and bridges are
planned, built, maintained and operated with the utmost safety standards in
place and the Transport Research Laboratory monitors road engineering through
the various road condition indicator codes, tools and surveys.Use of
technology-oriented enforcement throughcameras, interceptors and radar surveillance,
traffic calming and control systems, pedestrian assistance and crossing
systems, separate and dedicated lanes for different types of vehicles, bicycles
and pedestrians, structured digital signage and direction boards, mandatory
tracking and security system in vehicles (Tachometer, GPS etc.), standardised driving
licence testing system,safety standards for vehicles and its passengers, yearly
checking of vehicles (MOT), dedicated parking places and the way the
enforcement as well as awareness campaigns such as <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a>‘Think!’ are outsourced are
worth emulating in countries like India where accidents are very high.The
public transport system in the UK, especially the cities is one of the best in
the world which has reduced the use of private vehicles. The fairly well laid
out guidelines and assessments of safety audit system by the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a>‘Chartered Institution of
Highways and Transportation’, (CIHT) a society for planning, design,
construction, maintenance and operation of road transport in the UK is often
referred as a reference book for road safety management in other countries. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a>UK is also one of the
safest EU countries for road users with road mortality lower than 40 deaths per
million inhabitants.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Great Britain also has the best and fastest emergency
and trauma-care with most of the hospitals having A&E departments
functioning 24/7.The 999 ambulances reach the crash scene within 5 to 10
minutes of receiving intimation. It was however reported in the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a>‘Accident and Emergency
Statistics- briefing paper no. 6964 of 17<sup>th</sup> July 2015’ that there
was 9% increase of attendees in A&E in 2014/15 compared to 2009/10 and on a
daily basisemergency admissions were 11,044 compared to 9,397, five years back.
It was also found that a majority of attendees at A&E are children below
the age of 14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Till the end of December
2014, there were 35.6 million vehicles registered in the UK, which was 9%
higher compared to 2013 according to the Vehicle Licensing Statistics, 2014,
Government of UK Department for Transport. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a>The annual report of road
casualties in Great Britain on 2014 shows that in 194,477 road accidents, 1775
people of which three-quarters were pedestrians, died and 22,807 were seriously
injured in 2014 which was 5.4% higher than in 2013. The traffic accidents and
fatalities which have beenreducing up to 2013 since 1997showed an increase of 5
and 4% respectively in 2014, despite all this.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">India</b>there
are no uniform road safety policies or standard procedures for traffic control.
Imported and costly vehicles co-exist with stray animals, pedestrians, bullock
carts and non-motorised transport on the roads where footpaths, parking areas,
places of worshipand market places merge with roads. Consequently, traffic is
in total chaos. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a>In
2004, the total number of registered automobiles was around 72 million but it grew
to 189 million in 2014, more than double in ten years as revealed in the data
files of the Central Transport Department.This is almost five times higher than
the total vehicle population in the UK. The National and State highways in
India is the second largest in the world with 3.3 million km which is 200 times
more than in the UK. But the roads and traffic management systems have not
changed much in these ten years leading to erratic driving patterns and heavy congestions
on the roads. On an average, nearly 450,000 serious road accidents occur a year
in India claiming around 170,000 lives and injuring over 480,000 people. It is
estimated that daily around 16 children lose their lives on the roads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a>In 2014, according to
official statistics of the National Highway Authority of India,there were
141,526 deaths due to road accidents compared to 137,423 in 2013, which showed
an increase of 2.9%.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A comparative figure of Road Accidents
and deaths from 2012 to 2014 in the 10 states in India where the highest number
of accidents were reported for the last three years since 2012 is given below.</span></div>
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</span>NUMBER OF ROAD ACCIDENTS </span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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</span>NUMBER OF FATALITIES<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2012</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2013</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2014</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2012</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2013</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2014</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 21.2pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Tamil Nadu</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">67757</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">66220</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.1pt;" valign="top" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">67232</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt;" valign="top" width="142">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">15638</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.75pt;" valign="top" width="136">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">15645</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 72.8pt;" valign="top" width="121">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">15776</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 21.2pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Maharashtra </span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">45247</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">63019</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.1pt;" valign="top" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">61627</span></i></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt;" valign="top" width="142">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">13936</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.75pt;" valign="top" width="136">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">13999</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 72.8pt;" valign="top" width="121">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">13903</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 21.2pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Karnataka</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">44448</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">46250</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.1pt;" valign="top" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">43649</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt;" valign="top" width="142">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">9448</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.75pt;" valign="top" width="136">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">10046</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 72.8pt;" valign="top" width="121">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">10444</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 21.2pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Andhra Pradesh</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">44165</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">45524</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.1pt;" valign="top" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">45482</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt;" valign="top" width="142">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">14966</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.75pt;" valign="top" width="136">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">14946</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 72.8pt;" valign="top" width="121">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">15165</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 21.2pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Uttar Pradesh</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">24478</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">30615</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.1pt;" valign="top" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">31034</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt;" valign="top" width="142">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">15109</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.75pt;" valign="top" width="136">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">16004</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 72.8pt;" valign="top" width="121">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">16287</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 21.2pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rajasthan</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">22969</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">23592</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.1pt;" valign="top" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">24628</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt;" valign="top" width="142">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">9526</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.75pt;" valign="top" width="136">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">9724</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 72.8pt;" valign="top" width="121">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">10289</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 20.6pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 20.6pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Kerala<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 20.6pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">36174</span></i></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 20.6pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">35215</span></i></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 20.6pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.1pt;" valign="top" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">34282</span></i></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 20.6pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt;" valign="top" width="142">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">4286</span></i></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 20.6pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.75pt;" valign="top" width="136">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">4258</span></i></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 20.6pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 72.8pt;" valign="top" width="121">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">4049</span></i></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #1f4e79; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 21.2pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">West Bengal</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">15608</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">12414</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.1pt;" valign="top" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">12865</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt;" valign="top" width="142">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">6222</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.75pt;" valign="top" width="136">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">6504</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 72.8pt;" valign="top" width="121">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">5927</span></i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 21.2pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Chhattisgarh</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">13511</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">13657</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.1pt;" valign="top" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">13831</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt;" valign="top" width="142">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">3167</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 81.75pt;" valign="top" width="136">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">3477</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 72.8pt;" valign="top" width="121">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">4022</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 21.2pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 144.15pt;" valign="top" width="240">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Delhi</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.2pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.35pt;" valign="top" width="137">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">6937</span></div>
</td>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">7566</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">8623</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">1866</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">1870</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">1871</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Source-<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a> Report on accidents and
suicides dated 8.07.2015 of National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home
affairs</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kerala</b> is the only state where there was a
decrease in the number of accident cases reported as well as deaths due to road
crashes from 2012 to 2013 and 2014. Since 2007, road accidents and fatalities
were increasing by 3 to 5% every year and the number of vehicles has increased
by over 10%.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a>Though
small in area and size, the total number of registered vehicles in this state, as
on March 2015 was 9,648,320 which are more than double the number of households
in the state. Around 66% of the registered vehicles are two-wheelers and three-wheelers.
Considering the total length of all the roads in the state, there are 60 vehicles
plying in every kilometre. Still in 2014 compared to 2013, 209 less number of
fatalities and 933 less number of accidents have occurred although as per the
sheer number of accidents reported, Kerala can be ranked in the 5<sup>th</sup>
position among the states having the highest number of traffic accidents a
year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>West Bengal and Maharashtra show fluctuating
trends but in all other states road accidents and fatalities increase as years
go by. Kerala is the third mostdensely populated state in the country with 33
million inhabitants and 850 people per square kilometre. Being a highly
literate and litigant State, all road accidents, however minor, gets reported
to the police and FIRs (First Information Report) are generated, the documents
of which are requiredfor claiming insurance and damages from the Motor Vehicles
Claims Tribunal.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kerala
is the only state in India having a Road Safety Authority in existence since
2007. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a>The KRSA Act 2007, passed
by the Government in 2008 is vested with powers toformulate policies and schemes,
to allot funds to the various stake-holding departments to promote road safety
and advise the government on various road safety measures.The KRSA has also
powers to control and direct departments such as Health, Education, Police,
Transport, Public Works, Roads and Bridges and National Highways in their road
safety activities. The Minister Transport is chairman of KRSA and Minister
Public Works is vice- Chairman. The Commissioner, Transport is the CEO and
senior officers of the above departments are members. All these departments
have road safety cells and KRSA holds meeting every month to review accidents
and suggest improvements to be carried out by each department to prevent
further accidents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a>A study was conducted by this
authority through the road safety research organisation, NATPAC (National
transportation, planning & research centre) to formulate a road safety
action plan in 2012. This report stressed the need for strengthening
enforcement and creating awareness among the public against rash and negligent
driving which was the major cause of road accidents and deaths. The report further
recommended that while engineering, enforcement and emergency care are duties
primarily vested with government agencies, education was one area where the
cooperation from the otherwise silent public could be involved in the department’s
efforts to save the lives of people, especially children on the roads. Hence,
the KRSA and Transport Department decided to make a paradigm shift in its
policies and include the public in strengthening road safety in the state.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">PROJECT
THIRD EYE</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[19]</span></span></span></span></a>Article 51 (A) of the
Constitution of India outlines the fundamental duties of Indian citizens, one of
them being ‘the duty to abjure violence and safeguard public property’. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[20]</span></span></span></span></a>The Indian Penal Code and
the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[21]</span></span></span></span></a>Criminal Procedure Code
also make it mandatory for every citizen to ‘report a crime before the lawful
authority for taking further action according to law’ and failure to do so may
be construed as abetting the crime. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[22]</span></span></span></span></a>The Central and the State
Motor Vehicle Act and rules likewise exhort the public to report cases of
violations of traffic rules, act as ‘good Samaritans’ to provide assistance to
victims and intimate the hospital and authorities about road accidents. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Project
third eye’ was envisaged to involve the silent masses to take proactive steps
in helping reduce road accidents and report offences which they see to the
concerned authority. In this state, enforcement was weak due to acute shortage
of officers and vehicles as well as finances and most of the commuters violated
rather than obeyed the rules. Helmetless riding, non-wearing of the seatbelt,
talking on cell phones while driving, drunken driving and driving under the
influence of narcotic substances, traffic signal lights violations, not
stopping before zebra lines, left side overtaking, road rages as well as
parking on non-parking areas were rampant and went undetected.</span></div>
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Third Eye proposed a bottom up approach for a policy implementation on road
safety and to use the social media and digital networking technology in
promoting safe driving habits and to enforce the rules through participative
policing methods. The transport department invited the public to be ‘the third
eye’ (first eye being Law and the second eye, the Government/enforcement) and provide
information, feedback and comments on road safety activities. The department
gave wide media/press publicity to this project exhorting the public to click
pictures of traffic violations on their phones or other devices and send them
on ‘WhatsApp’ or Facebook page/website to the Motor Vehicle Department. A text message
and email wouldbe sent to the owner of the vehicle intimating them of the rule violation
and directing them to remit the required fines within a fortnight. The project
proposed to reward the informers by giving them free trauma care training, priority
treatment at all offices of transport and motor vehicle department and also
proposed to honour such people who have actively cooperated in reducing traffic
offences or helped victims of road accidents in public functions in order to
encourage others to do the same. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Operation
Third Eye was launched on trial basis in mid-2013. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[23]</span></span></span></span></a>On an average, 3500
pictures and videos were received from the public per day from its inception till
the year-end. The revenue to the government as fines collected as compounding
fee of traffic offences showed an increase of 38% in 2013. By March 2014, the
number of pictures received per day from the public rose to more than 5000 per
day and the department had to hire three data entry operators to clear the
pending work of sending electronic tickets/memos for traffic violations. Complaints
against driving schools, unfair practices or corruption in driving licence tests
or vehicle tests and complaints against enforcers also started to pour in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On each of these, the department sent replies
acknowledging receipt of the pictures/suggestions and gave them a reference
number in case they needed to follow up the matter. A database of informers
kept tag of people who frequently co-operated with the department for rewarding
them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By
January 2015, it was clear from the data that in 2014, there was a noted
decrease in the number of road accidents and fatalities. The fines and
compounding fees collected in 2014 was Rs 1.2 billion which was more than
double the amount collected in 2013 and this was possible only due to the active
involvement of the public.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">INCLUSIVITY-
THE WAY FORWARD TO ROAD SAFETY?<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
are many actors in the road safety sector. Government officers at the Centre
and States, manufacturers and engineers of automobiles, vehicle dealers, oil
companies, public works department, national highwaysdepartment and its
officers, public sector undertakings such as roads and bridges development
corporation, construction corporation, urban planning organisations, officials
at the city corporations, municipalities and villages, town planners, police
and enforcement officers, transport and traffic management officers, public
transport systems and its employees, drivers and passengers, testing centres,
driving schools, licensing centres, check posts and toll booths, pollution
testing centres, meteorology department, NGOs, research and development teams,
officers of various departments such as health and education and finally
cyclists and pedestrians are some of them. To achieve the desired outcome, all
have their specific roles to play. Most of the time, while government
departments, officers and vehicle manufacturers decide and implement major
policies, the road users and the silent masses are forced to abide by them. Their
points of view are often unheard. The transport system and the roads belong to
the taxpayers and the lead Ministry or agency should include them while taking
major decisions in improving road safety; it is ultimately for them that safety
policies should exist.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6894877103480169463#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[24]</span></span></span></span></a>The Ministry of Road
Transport and highways of India came out with a new draft bill titled the Road
Transport and Safety Bill in 2014 with the aim to reduce road accidents and
fatalities by 50% in 2020. This bill proposed to unify all rules and
procedures, centrally monitor all vehicles and driving licences and codify all
data relating to transport and vehicles to a central system and control. It
further proposed to drastically enhance fines of traffic rule violations and
include penalty points community service up to 15 days as punishments. The
original bill went through four revisions and the new version of the bill of
2015 envisages a framework for safety and ‘seamless development of a secure,
efficient, cost-effective and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inclusive
transport system</i>’ in the country. The new bill proposes establishing authorities
for control and coordination of transport and road safety, but is still silent
about inclusive transport or safety. So far, the bill has not even been
introduced in Parliament despite its many revisions and meetings of the Central
Minister with State Ministers. It is expected that once it becomes an Act,
concrete steps for including all the main actors in road safety goals and
policies will be laid out, but immediate actionon the following points need to
be taken by the authorities concerned for reducing road accidents.</span></div>
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realise that transport means not only the roads and the motorised sector but also
the non-motorised sector such as cycles, hand or animal pulled vehicles and
pedestrians- women, children, disabled and the poor. While devising policies,
their special needs and inputsshould be studied and changes should be made with
a view to providing safe and secure facilities.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Government spendsheavilyfor conferences,
educational programmes and meetings for road safety but fail toharness public
ideas to develop sustainable goals (SDGs) in road safety. Funds should be made
available for creating and disseminating awareness to the people on traffic and
public transport system or outsource it effectively. Making available free and
user-friendly computer/mobile applications on traffic, transport and road
safety, having transparency in all policy decisions, inviting public
participation before making substantial changes and providing a common platform
for formulating a future path to road safety are some ways by which money can
be fruitfully spent by the government. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It is human nature to resist policy
decisions taken unilaterally. If the civil society thinks that road safety is a
matter of concern only with the government, they will continue to break rulesaccording
to their convenience while no one is watching. Public resentment to
authoritarian road safety measures is evident when they are more willing to pay
the penalty rather than obey the rules. Hence, an environment of connecting
with the publicand ensuring respect for law will have to be created.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in right 451.3pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Technology, presently used for strict
enforcement should be extended to allowease of understanding and following of procedures
for the public. Rules and regulations as well as penalty for violating them
should be continuously brought before public attention and thrust should be given
to prevent violations than to penalise them. Surveys, feedback and inputs on improvements
needed in technology to enhanceroad safetyand how best to prevent traffic offences
and road ragescould be called for. Digitizingdata of all the roads, vehicles,
users of roads, the behaviour of drivers and other stakeholders at the national
level for analytical purposes should be implemented forease in assessment of
various issues and for future improvementin road safety.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Social media is a good space for
inclusive road safety activities. The Facebook page of Kerala Motor Vehicles Department
has 143,000 friends as of now and gets around 55,000 posts a week from the
public. This department has registered online charitable organisations called TRUST
(TRaUma care System of Travancore) and TRACK (TRAuma care, Kerala) which formally
train the public on first aid and trauma care on every Saturday at
reputedhospitals. Over 46,000 persons are so far trained on trauma care. The
trained persons are given ID cards so that they can effectively intervene if an
accident occurs in their locality. SMILE (Seamless Medical Intervention In
Life-saving and Emergency care) is another organisation started by the police
in co-operation with the Medical College Hospitals in Kerala for imparting
trauma-care training to traffic police officers.Another initiative by the transport
department on inclusivity in road safety was the hackathon organised for the
public in August 2014. The World Bank, in association with AXA, G-tech and
Angel hack, USA sponsored for hosting Asia’s first ever ‘road safety hackathon’
in Kerala in which 308 students and technocrats participated. This event generated
novel ideas on road safety technology.</span></div>
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we could save the lives of 237 people in 18 months through a small experiment
in one tiny state, we can save thousands of lives in the country if similar
inclusive policies are taken up by the department/Government. It is estimated
by the UN that ‘by 2030, road accidents will become a leading cause of death in
the world unless drastic action is taken to change the trend’. At present, the
major cause of death in humans is old age and sickness, but road accidents will
become the number one cause in 15 years unless we do something substantial in
this field. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The future path to road
safety is clear- it is the path of inclusive road safety. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
studied English Language and Literature and still love the plays of
Shakespeare. My favorite poets are the romantic poet trio- Wordsworth,
Keats and Shelley. Even from those days, my greatest wish was to go to
England and walk through the places where these great writers have lived
and created treasure-trove in words. I mentioned in my earlier post
that I attended the compulsory mid-career training program in 2012, but
it was just for a week. With classes in the London Business School and
Metropolitan Police of London (Erstwhile Scotland Yard), I hardly got
time to roam around the place that time. So, the Chevening Fellowship
was a dream come true for me with three full months to go around all the
places I wanted to see and experience the varied culture and beauty of
the great historic place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">During
the first few days, I walked around the area and experimented on the
different routes to get to Kings College from our place of residence. It
was great fun. We went in groups. The first day's walk was long since
we took the south side Thames bridge. From the second day onward we
found a path that takes just 25 minutes to reach the campus. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
classes started with the National Health Scheme of UK. I asked one of
the doctor who came to take one class why antibiotics are not available
in the pharmacies in London and he replied that use of antibiotics is
banned in the country! I asked "then how was I supposed to cure my bad
cold and cough?" He replied "Oh, it will vanish in a week. It will go
away even if you take or don't take antibiotics" He was very positive
about it, so I trusted him and took some cold medicines which I had
carried with me. Within a week, my cold vanished as the London Doctor
promised and it never came back as long as I stayed there though I
walked around in the rains, in extreme coldness with no proper woolens
and also under the direct beams of the sun. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
classes were not one person talking all the time, they were lively and
interesting with slide shows, movies and Q&A sessions. We were taken
for field visits too every week. The College gave us an Oyster card
using which we could take trips in the trains, buses and even boats! The
Chevening Secretariat had sent us a cash card with 3000 pounds in it
which we merrily used for purchases and personal trips. I had carried
some money with me and my brother in London gave me some when he dropped
me from the Airport to my room. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">To my surprise I found out that almost every other day there were wine and official dinner in the evenings too. Some of the days, they provided us lunch in the class room, which I tremendously enjoyed. During the first weekend itself I went with Sapna to Bournville and thoroughly enjoyed visiting the Cadbury World. Then I went to my cousin Mini's house in Birmingham and stayed there for two days. Mini and Chandramohan chettan took us to Stratford upon Avon, Cotswold and the first Iron Bridge- an architectural marvel! We also went to a philharmonic orchestra with over 100 musicians playing over 30 types of musical instruments- a simply amazing experience. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">After two weeks of classes and field visits including visit to the House of Commons and House of Lords in London, we went to Scotland. The inputs about Referendum, Devolution of powers and laws on LBGT at Edinburgh University were enjoyable. I got a blue sweater from the University Store which I used lavishly during my stay there. I took a long walk in the university campus with another room mate of mine, Neha Pahuja and missed a bit of afternoon session since we got lost on our way back! One day we went to the Scottish parliament and heard the First Minister Ms Nicola Sturgeon, a very smart lady answer the questions from the opposition!Another great experience!</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">That weekend we proceeded as a group to Scottish High lands and a place called Isle of Skies! I put my foot down when the leader of the team refused to take us to Loch Ness, which is fabled for the presence of sea monster Nessie and insisted we should go there. Being a senior person and a police officer, the others buckled and we went there too. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire trip.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back in London, another week of classes on finance started. We learned all about bit-coins and the latest financial innovations and use of technology in the world of money. A visit to the Metal Exchange in London was interesting and from the gallery we saw the heated trading of metals and the flurry of activities where over 50 people crowded around a table. All around the room were telephone exchanges manned by another set of people shouting the deals offered. During that week, there were heavy rains. I had carried an umbrella from home, it was a light weight poppy umbrella which could be folded three times to make it pocket size. It was a gift from Baby Uncle, owner of Poppy umbrellas and had a lovely purple colour. On my way back from class, I put it open at the reception of Moonraker Point and went to have a cup of coffee thinking I will take it back to the room after drinking the coffee. But when I came back to the reception, this umbrella was gone. I inquired at the reception and the girl there said "Oh, someone must have taken it. it is still raining. They will give it back, don't worry. Please check up at the reception tomorrow." I kept checking a few times, but I never got it back. It was so sad that someone should take another's umbrella even in London! </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next week was our much awaited trip to Geneva. While packing for the trip and counting the Euros I carried with me, I found a shortage of 50 Euro note. Panicking, I searched the entire room and found it gone from my locked suitcase. Then I counted my pounds and found 400 pounds too missing! I got a huge shock! My money was stolen! </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Throughout that night I counted and recounted the money against the expenses I have spent in London and got convinced that 400 pounds and 50 Euros were stolen from my room from someone. First I called the help line number of Moonraker Point, my accommodation. No response. Then I mailed to them. I also complained to the Chevening Secretariat and to Police in the early morning next day. From the police station I got a call within an hour to confirm whether I sent the complaint. They were very efficient and cordial. I also got a call from a victim relief person consoling me that I should not be upset and everything will be fine. That evening, the police visited my room and took my statement and photographs of the room. They told me that it will be difficult to recover stolen cash and they will enquire into the matter. I got several calls from them when I was in Geneva and later in Paris. Pacified by the Police, I proceeded to Geneva and had a great week there. I went two days ahead of the Monday when we were officially booked in Ibis hotel. I got a room at Nash hotel near the airport for 2 nights for which I spent my own money. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">I opted to stay alone and explore since Geneva for two days since my experience last time of moving along with the crowd restricted my freedom. So, I hopped into a bus, talking half German, half English to the French speaking people there. Ultimately I managed to reach the City Center where I alighted and walked through the shopping malls and streets for hours. I also saw the English Garden where there is a flower clock which keeps up the perfect time!</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Late in the evening, I got into a tram, yes a tram, and got back to the hotel after losing my way a couple of times. It was an adventurous solo trip. I also spent money for unwanted beauty products. But the walk at the city center and by the side of Le Mirador lake, locally called Lac Leman and the sight of the huge water jet fountain were enthralling. The next day I visited the house of a Malayali family there who took control of the rest of my days in Geneva. Manoj, Sindhu and their two cute kids went out of the way to take care of me!</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">From Monday onward, I shifted to Hotel Ibis where official stay was arranged for the fourteen of us and we went for classes, discussions and field visits to WTO, UNHRD and WHO. A friend came all the way from Zurich to take me for dinner one of these days! Thanks to Joy and Kunjamma for another enjoyable evening! I also had dinner with Appu and Aditi, both working in UN and a long beautiful walk through the old city another evening. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The beautiful places I visited from Geneva are Mont Blanc andChamonix, both in French Alps. I also visited a village called Annecy. With friends I roamed around again through all these streets and took a boat ride right up to the fountain. On that weekend, some of us proceeded to Paris by train so that we could stay two extra nights there in our personal capacity. The trip by Euro rail was enchanting and we reached Paris in the late evening.</span></span></h3>
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Sreelekha IPShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10814513747709025485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6894877103480169463.post-71881139736246612772016-02-09T05:18:00.003-08:002017-07-24T01:11:24.415-07:00My Facebook post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Facebook is accessible only to my friends. I have never made it public. When many friends/relatives asked me about a press report which appeared in the media on 27th December 2015 that Vigilance Court Thrissur had ordered a case to be registered against me, I wrote a post about it on my private facebook page so that I need not repeat the story to each and everyone.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">How can telling my friends my woes create so much controversy and news value?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am the target of continued harassment from one particular person (my enemy No.1) of the same rank ever since I entered the service. Recently he was devising new ways to torture me, the motive for which is still unclear. May be he was jealous that I got the prestigious Chevening Award in UK? When I took study leave to undertake UK Government's Chevening Fellowship for 3 months from September to December 2015, he manipulated to get into the post I vacated. He was thrown out of another department due to some controversy and was in need of face-saving. He has been continuously searching for ways to tarnish my three decades of unblemished career record through devious means, but in Transport Department he could not find any mistakes I did. Fearing that I may get back as Transport Commissioner on my return from UK, he created a false story that got aired in Asianet channel for a full day which said that I misused the official vehicle and telephone of TC causing a loss of Rs 24,000. Once Asianet knew that the story was false, they removed that news immediately from the channel, but for a few hours my enemy succeeded in spreading false rumour that I, who at that time was in London, misused his office facilities. On my return, he refused to budge from the post of TC, so after 3 weeks of waiting for posting, I got posted in State Crime Records Bureau as ADGP on 23.12.2015. I am happy and relaxed now. Seeing that I am happy, he got upset and started to look for other ways to harass me.He does that quite often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were umpteen instances in the past of his harassment. Three years back when he was placed under suspension for holding two passports and taking trips abroad without sanction from competent authority, he lashed out against me publicly saying that Sreelekha also took trips abroad and hence she too also be suspended! He fabricated a GO showing that I caused Rs 84,000 to Government and gave it to the media who happily showed in the channels it for a day. I searched for this GO and could not find it either in any office or at Secretariat. Then I found that he fabricated this GO just to damage my reputation. I complained against him then and even obtained Government sanction to file a damages suit against him. But then he came to me and apologised, touching my feet and crying. He has that habit of publicly harassing me and then apologising privately. He vouched time and again that he was Satan and I was an Angel and he would never torment me again! I forgave him then too, since I believe that having bad feelings for others is not good for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But he gets some mean pleasure by torturing me. So, in December 2015 he found an opportunity to influence a bus owner to give a false complaint against me at the Thrissur Vigilance Court on 30.12.2015 that an Educational Institution has bought some buses which were used as stage carriages to evade tax and a petition given to Transport Minister in 2013 was scuttled by me since I accepted bribe from the College and the earlier bus owner. I was accused number 3 in the petition. JRTO Chalakkudy was accused 4. Accused one was previous bus owner Joy Antony and Accused 2 was Principal of College, Sajeev Vattoli. Complainant's name was P. P. Johnson. The Vigilance Court was made to believe that there was a Special Branch Report which prove the allegations, so the court called for it the next day- ie 31.12.2015. There was no SB report on that date. But 15 days later, on 15.01.2016, DySP Special Branch Thrissur gives a vague report to ADG Intelligence that in Thrissur District, Educational Institutions evade vehicle taxes which require enquiry by Vigilance Department. On 22nd January, he gave another vague report to the court that he gave a report to ADG Intelligence for vigilance enquiry. The court promptly ordered a case to be registered against all the accused by Vigilance!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know this complainant Johnson. He never came with any complaint to me. When he complained first in February 2013, Sri. Rishiraj Singh was the TC. The petition was forwarded by Minister's office and Vigilance in June 2013 and the then TC enquired about it through his JRTO Chalakkudy. Finding the allegations unsubstantiated, he informed this to complainant Johnson in July 2013 and even sent report to Minister Transport. One year later, in June 2014, I took charge as TC. I handed over charge of TC in September 2015 to the Transport Secretary Sri Gopala Menon. I was in Transport Department for only 14 months. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I was naturally puzzled why a person should target me with this false complaint. As suspected, I found out that the present TC was behind this. I was naturally distressed. During one of the sleepless nights post this incident, I wrote a post about this on my facebook page. It got leaked to Manorama in a few hours!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course the post carried his name, which everyone knows by now. My post, meant only for my friends & relatives got leaked to the media by one of my friends who is unfortunately friend of you-know-who or he might have wriggled into my FB in a false name! So from 30th January onward, Manorama channel & Kairali channel started celebrating the news. The newspapers followed suit. Now the news is in the National Media. I did not talk to anybody in the press, because I had filed an appeal at the High Court against the orders of the Vigilance Court & I am awaiting orders from the High Court. I am positive of a favourable outcome, but the damage he intended had been already done.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My FB post is not public. I never intended it to be public. Yet it became a big news and one Enemy No.1 threatened to file damages case against me. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To answer one query from some stranger as to why it took 29 years for me respond and whether I intend to join politics now that elections are round the corner- first, I have responded only when I was driven to the corner. And at a heavy cost too. Because he is venomous and spits untruths.And I don't have the mental strength to be a politician. So, sorry. I will retire as DGP and then engage my time fruitfully in writing.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My innocence will be proven soon. I wish to thank all my well wishers- known and unknown who supported and prayed for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">PS- The High Court quashed the orders of Vigilance Court, fully vindicating me. Further, in the orders of the Hon'ble High Court, it was mentioned that such vexatious petitioners should be legally dealt with. So I filed a damages suit against this Johnson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enemy is least amused, so his twisted brain has planned another attack. I have written about it in "Mr- Creeps." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now you decide. Is he crazy or does he have some mental problem? Is he fit to occupy this post which he holds now? </span><br />
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