Noida Killings : Is India a banana republic

Friday, December 29, 2006, 21:47
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Though this news does not come in our domain but probably it reminds us that behind a rocking 8% GDP growth, booming Sensex and rocking placements season, India is still a country where poor have very little choices and they are a second grade unwarranted and unnoticed citizens and all saga of growth and glory is limited to English speaking urban middle class.

The very fact that for last one year kidnapping of children were happening but let alone investigating, state police chose to ignore and look other way while poor relative of victims ran from pillar to post. It also remind that despite independence some 50 years back, India is still a country of ruling class and common man where all police, bureaucrats and politicians have replaced English and have continued the rule with very little empathy for the common man.

The only silver line in this all affair is media which has been coming out in full force and trying to get justice in some cases at least.

And what is probably more shameful that when this ghastly event came to light today it looked like that police is issuing statements to help accused rather than carrying out a detailed investigation. And hence probbaly we are no good than a banana republic when it comes to state of police and administration.
Some of example statements

IG Police statement to TV : I am not a inspector to know facts, I am IG Merrut Range, I am not a Inspector of police station who will know facts of case

Police : The accused is mentally unstable ( this without any medical examination and probably will help accused to evade strict punishment as lawyers will use statement of mentally unstable to secure release)

Police : The kids have been sexually assaulted ( again all police discovered was skulls and bones and no forensic examination was done, but confession statement was touted as gospel truth)

Probably all this also reminds that a cabinet minister is more worried about a game than some 1000 suicides and farmers are turned landless on the name of industrialization and SEZ. But Sensex is rising, middle class is celebrating and India is shining!

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4 Comments on “Noida Killings : Is India a banana republic”

Manoj wrote on 30 December, 2006, 17:31
Well when Adobe CEO’s son was kidnapped in NOIDA . Police was very active . They solved the case in good time.

These people villagers police did not file report when there kids went missing for a year or so.

It seems justice is not for the poor . Those who do not have the money in this cruel capitalist society will not be heard at all.

They will not be heard at all. This is really very sad reflection on our value system , the police , the politicians all of them.

Poor people ,villagers also feel in the same way when there child got killed as the rich the pain is no different.

It seems India and Indians hate there roots -our great grandfathers or ancestors were villagers only.

We hate our own language and consider it inferior.

Chinese as a race are 100 times better than us.

They are proud of their language at least .
kiran wrote on 30 December, 2006, 18:47
Well it looks like real culprits have again escaped as it is more a case of kidney gang than serial killer. Kindeny gang has been involved in this but looks like police has been shielding them.
aftermath wrote on 1 January, 2007, 14:21
Now after 5 days 5 police men have been suspended. these are the people who are at lowest level of hierarchy and spend more time taking kids of officials to school or bringing vegetables. who is responsible for not knowing this rut?? local intelligence or senior officials..

I dont think in India any IAS / IPS was ever suspended for lax in rule. and i think India was much better under english rule than under these brown sahibs
tribhuvan desai wrote on 9 February, 2007, 13:19
Sir,

For your kind information, here is an analysis, from a well

known source.

Hope you get to read fully, as you may own a place there as

well…

Noida / Greater-noida areas are witnessing a drastic drop in

old price, currently and same potentially in the future, as:

1-

SEZ’s –

Local regimes are buying off HUGE tracts of land from farmers.

How? By banning the farmers from selling to anyone else,

except to the regime in question, by invoking ‘Security’ and

other words in their new rules

Then the same regimes are selling off HUGE PERCENTAGES of

their respective States, by directing dealing with MNC’s and

big money holders.

Next, with this kind of money power, MNC’s can build big

properties very cheap, due to their economies of scale.

A layman’s view to this is:
- you buy 10 bags of cement from the shop, & pay say Rs. 100.
- but MNC buys 10,000 bags of cement direct from the factory,

then they pay say Rs. 50 or even less!

So basically, what is their aim??

a- buy real cheap, HUGE TRACTS OF LAND, by working

hand-in-hand and/or behind the scenes, with the local

authorities, and paying out, virtually pennies on the dollar,

b- build real cheap: buy cement, steel, labor, real dirt

cheap, due to the above detailed layman’s view, or whats

commonly known as economies of scale.

Maybe even import containers of cheaper inventory, thereby

eliminating the local shops and factories altogether.

Use the cheap labor and inventory, to build huge properties,

of the scale, which are previously unknown to India.

c- sell the new properties, with huge advertisements, compared

to the poor individual builder/dalal

d- In any case, they stand to reap large profits from india’s

lands, and then they route the same, back to their respective

countries of origin.

And what about end-user’s property? It’s price could literally

collapse, given the huge new supply of properties, created by

MNC’s in the market !

2-
Recent events like NITHARI and criminal acts causing

potentially dangerous scenarios for noida areas, as regards

the safety and security of fathers, mothers and boys and girls

alike,

3-
Witness a somewhat exodus of curent and potential families

with children from there, towards other areas like hariyana,

gurgaon, faridabad, ghaziabad, delhi, punjab, etc, as they are

not too far to their jobs/schools, by well-connected

road/metro/train,

4-
Political situation there is highly unstable, per experts

views, and knowing of elections in near future, one cannot say

what will happen.

As seen in the past, changes after elections caused immense

hardships to the end-users.

They keep changing the laws and regulations, read, changing

the goal-posts (or keep moving the wickets, as we say in

cricket terms) which do make big bucks for the regime of the

day, that then exists.

But in return, cause lots of problems to the local end-users

and some unfortunate dalal’s/builders.

5-
Dalal’s buy form end-users, by comunicating with end owners,

making big promises, then taking off all legal papers from end

owners, and paying just 10%-20% of the market price.

Then dalal’s keeping end owners on hold for months and in some

cases years for the balance amounts, till a time when these

real owners get tired of running in courts and between all

sorts of lawyers.

Finally, the same working end owners then settle for very low

amounts and complete the sale to the dalal’s, and very low

prices.

So they basically lose big time, not only on the dalal’s

agreed to price, but, also months and even years of their

valuable lives’ time.

6-
The actual requirement of the daily-working people is low, so

construction of houses was originally at a slow pace.

Now the authorities are forcing in legal clauses, to deadline

the people into constructing houses, by so and so dates.

But even such newly built houses would then be actually empty,

with nobody staying in them.

Then dalal’s again come into the picture, with the same old

formula: sell the earlier bare-plots, as, now

plots-with-brand-spanking-new-houses.

7-
If you visited the area well, then you know that, the new

upcoming areas of noida/g-noida are vast, with huge tracts of

land being thrown up for development by the relevant

authorities, despite the low actual requirement by the

end-users, thus these maybe primarily for dalal’s/builders,

8-
Huge numbers of these owners are actually dalal’s/builders,

who are trying to “hoard” land, and create a monopoly, to pull

out big bucks from any potential real end-users/buyers,

So now, sir, where do you stand?? think !

Regards….