Is a measly Rupees twenty (20) more valuable than the cost of an irreplaceable human life, well it certainly is if you happen to be caught red handed while attempting to steal the above mentioned amount and are hell bent upon eliminating all traces of the crime.........
A 30 year old man was arrested by Chembur (Mumbai) police personnel late on Monday evening on charges of illegally entering his neighbours residence and murdering his neighbour's daughter who saw him entering the house..........
Prakash Hajra (the accused) stealthily entered his neighbours house on Monday morning on the pretext of charging his mobile phone but was overcome by greed when he spotted a cash bag belonging to the girl's father lying on a nearby table........
He made a furtive attempt to remove Rupees 20 from the various notes that abounded the bag but was caught red handed by 7 year old Beauty Sarkar (the victim and daughter of Hojra's neighbour) who was home alone at the time while in the midst of his criminal act.........
Sagar (10), the victim's elder brother was playing by himself outside the house when Hajra stealthily entered their house and extricated Rupees twenty from the cash bag as he wanted to satiate his thirst for country liquor (Hooch)..........
What is even more galling in this case is the fact that the Sarkars looked upon Hajra as family as he also happened to hail from their native state of West Bengal; on being confronted by Beauty a flabbergasted and highly agitated Hajra firstly resorted to threats and bluster and then proceeded to hold Beauty's head down in a tank of water until she breathed her last so that the sole witness to his crime would be eliminated.........
He then proceeded to lock the house from outside and hastily fled the scene of the crime but his luck ran out at around 2:30 pm or so on the fateful Friday afternoon as Beauty's mother Sonali (25) a housemaid by profession returned home to be confronted by the twin scenes of a house locked from outside and a seemingly unconscious daughter.........
Sonali immediately rushed Beauty to a neighbouring hospital where the doctor who attended on her pronounced her brought dead on arrival; a distraught and hysterical Sonali somehow managed to summon up the wherewithal to inform the cops in the area police station about her daughter's unnatural death and the cops swung into action as soon as they received the complaint at around 4 pm or so on Monday evening.......
They firstly proceeded to question or query Sagar who spontaneously spilled out the fact that he had seen Hajra enter the house when Beauty was alone inside the same; the police personnel then proceeded to apprehend Hajra from the area's licensed liquor vend and he spilled the beans about his starring role in the murder most foul as he failed to sustain the pressure of the volley of questions hurled at him by the investigating officer.........
That brings me back to the moot question as to whether a measly Rupees twenty (20) is more valuable than an irreplaceable human life........
A 30 year old man was arrested by Chembur (Mumbai) police personnel late on Monday evening on charges of illegally entering his neighbours residence and murdering his neighbour's daughter who saw him entering the house..........
Prakash Hajra (the accused) stealthily entered his neighbours house on Monday morning on the pretext of charging his mobile phone but was overcome by greed when he spotted a cash bag belonging to the girl's father lying on a nearby table........
He made a furtive attempt to remove Rupees 20 from the various notes that abounded the bag but was caught red handed by 7 year old Beauty Sarkar (the victim and daughter of Hojra's neighbour) who was home alone at the time while in the midst of his criminal act.........
Sagar (10), the victim's elder brother was playing by himself outside the house when Hajra stealthily entered their house and extricated Rupees twenty from the cash bag as he wanted to satiate his thirst for country liquor (Hooch)..........
What is even more galling in this case is the fact that the Sarkars looked upon Hajra as family as he also happened to hail from their native state of West Bengal; on being confronted by Beauty a flabbergasted and highly agitated Hajra firstly resorted to threats and bluster and then proceeded to hold Beauty's head down in a tank of water until she breathed her last so that the sole witness to his crime would be eliminated.........
He then proceeded to lock the house from outside and hastily fled the scene of the crime but his luck ran out at around 2:30 pm or so on the fateful Friday afternoon as Beauty's mother Sonali (25) a housemaid by profession returned home to be confronted by the twin scenes of a house locked from outside and a seemingly unconscious daughter.........
Sonali immediately rushed Beauty to a neighbouring hospital where the doctor who attended on her pronounced her brought dead on arrival; a distraught and hysterical Sonali somehow managed to summon up the wherewithal to inform the cops in the area police station about her daughter's unnatural death and the cops swung into action as soon as they received the complaint at around 4 pm or so on Monday evening.......
They firstly proceeded to question or query Sagar who spontaneously spilled out the fact that he had seen Hajra enter the house when Beauty was alone inside the same; the police personnel then proceeded to apprehend Hajra from the area's licensed liquor vend and he spilled the beans about his starring role in the murder most foul as he failed to sustain the pressure of the volley of questions hurled at him by the investigating officer.........
That brings me back to the moot question as to whether a measly Rupees twenty (20) is more valuable than an irreplaceable human life........
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