One remembers hearing a lot about the Supreme Court stepping in to clean up cricket and expressly setting up the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee to probe the twin issues of betting and match fixing in the IPl; but the fact of the matter is that betting on IPL matches is still rampant and what is even more disturbing is the news that this penchant for making a fast buck is snuffing out young and innocent human lives.........
In a rather shocking, heart rending and sorrowful development; an undergraduate student hailing from Jharkhand's Ramgarh district committed suicide late on Thursday night after allegedly losing a tidy sum of more than Rs. 2 lakh on IPL 7 matches..........
Arun Kumar Bhagat 21, a resident of Ramgarh district (50 or so kms away from the state capital of Ranchi) decided to end his life prematurely less than 24 hours before the Indian leg of this premier domestic tournament kicked off in Ranchi because he believed that he had brought shame and dishonour on his family after having lost a little more than Rs. 2 lakh on the UAE leg of the same tournament...........
Chhatru Bhagat, the victim's distraught and inconsolable father does somewhat reluctantly reveal the fact that his son had indeed run up huge debts thanks to his nocturnal habit of betting heavily on IPL matches; "both his mother and me repeatedly warned him about the disastrous consequences of his actions but our salutary words did not seem to have the desired affect on him", he tearfully adds.......
" I was recently apprised of the fact that he (my son) had lost more than Rs. 2 lakh by betting on IPL matches; I was moving heaven and earth in order to repay my son's monstrous debts, but little did I know that this betting menace would end up claiming my son's budding life prematurely and plunge us into the deepest resources of sorrow and self recrimination", Bhagat signs off..........
Police sources said or revealed that Arun had hanged himself from the neck by hanging a rope through a hook attached to the ceiling of the bathroom within his living quarters late on Thursday night; but his body was only noticed hanging from the ceiling early on Friday morning by his fawning mother who had habitually wandered into his room with his cup of morning tea...........
Shocked and bewildered family members cut Arun down from the ceiling and rushed him to a nearby private hospital where he was declared brought dead on arrival by the doctor who examined him..........
The Jharkhand Police on it's part has begun an expeditious and comprehensive probe into this unsavoury probe by conducting a series of raids on betting addas within the Chittarpur area of Ramgarh district; "we may not be able to bring Arun back, but will not rest in peace until we have extricated the very menace that claimed his life from it's very roots", a senior Jharkhand police official remarked..........
One down and many more to go, one wonders why the younger generation seems oblivious to the fact that facetious short cuts to success like betting inordinate sums of ,money on "already fixed" IPL matches will only lead to ultimate penury and financial ruin instead of netting them the much desired returns; when will they ever learn, oh when will they ever learn...........
In a rather shocking, heart rending and sorrowful development; an undergraduate student hailing from Jharkhand's Ramgarh district committed suicide late on Thursday night after allegedly losing a tidy sum of more than Rs. 2 lakh on IPL 7 matches..........
Arun Kumar Bhagat 21, a resident of Ramgarh district (50 or so kms away from the state capital of Ranchi) decided to end his life prematurely less than 24 hours before the Indian leg of this premier domestic tournament kicked off in Ranchi because he believed that he had brought shame and dishonour on his family after having lost a little more than Rs. 2 lakh on the UAE leg of the same tournament...........
Chhatru Bhagat, the victim's distraught and inconsolable father does somewhat reluctantly reveal the fact that his son had indeed run up huge debts thanks to his nocturnal habit of betting heavily on IPL matches; "both his mother and me repeatedly warned him about the disastrous consequences of his actions but our salutary words did not seem to have the desired affect on him", he tearfully adds.......
" I was recently apprised of the fact that he (my son) had lost more than Rs. 2 lakh by betting on IPL matches; I was moving heaven and earth in order to repay my son's monstrous debts, but little did I know that this betting menace would end up claiming my son's budding life prematurely and plunge us into the deepest resources of sorrow and self recrimination", Bhagat signs off..........
Police sources said or revealed that Arun had hanged himself from the neck by hanging a rope through a hook attached to the ceiling of the bathroom within his living quarters late on Thursday night; but his body was only noticed hanging from the ceiling early on Friday morning by his fawning mother who had habitually wandered into his room with his cup of morning tea...........
Shocked and bewildered family members cut Arun down from the ceiling and rushed him to a nearby private hospital where he was declared brought dead on arrival by the doctor who examined him..........
The Jharkhand Police on it's part has begun an expeditious and comprehensive probe into this unsavoury probe by conducting a series of raids on betting addas within the Chittarpur area of Ramgarh district; "we may not be able to bring Arun back, but will not rest in peace until we have extricated the very menace that claimed his life from it's very roots", a senior Jharkhand police official remarked..........
One down and many more to go, one wonders why the younger generation seems oblivious to the fact that facetious short cuts to success like betting inordinate sums of ,money on "already fixed" IPL matches will only lead to ultimate penury and financial ruin instead of netting them the much desired returns; when will they ever learn, oh when will they ever learn...........
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