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DSP
Akhileshwar Prasad Singh was killed by Maoist
rebels on 3rd April 2006. Without any fanfare
within a week or two he is almost forgotten. I
was unable to find a picture of this brave hero
for this article, and internet and newspapers
are full of criminals and absconding fugitive’s
picture.
Police officers often get injured and sometime
killed in encounter with criminals. But this
incident is not a routine and normal incidence.
In a state where most people who have any
avenue, leave in a heartbeat and hardly visit or
do anything for the state other than giving
advices honest, police officers like Akhileshwar
Prasad is the last hope of people and last fort
of law and order. We can simply not afford to
lose them and forget them that easily.
These honest officers are doing a job which is
very critical, very dangerous, low paid ,
unappreciated and sometime humiliating due to
the presence of corrupt senior bureaucrats and
ministers. When we all fuss about corruption and
irresponsibility in police department, it will
be a highly irresponsible for us to ignore
sacrifice of a honest officer like Akhileshwar
Prasad.
A police officer that is posted in Bihar’s high
crime area is at least taking three time more
risk than his counterpart. Needless to say they
should be rewarded appropriately and given
recognition. When Mr. Nitish Kumar is asking for
special status for Bihar he should also give
special credit to police officers who perform
and make ultimate sacrifice. Although Mr Nitish
Kumar awarded financial help and job for a kind
few other things must be done at least which
are:
1. Family does not go through the painful
bureaucracy for getting economic help
2. All children of such people receive best
education
3. Criminals responsible are given swift justice
4. Some kind of organization or memorial (or
even a website) be created for such hero.
Last year Government of Bihar forgot to send
names of brave and honest officers for receiving
medals by the Government of India. I hope
someone will read my article and mark in their
calendar so that they don’t forget names this
time also.
Among many reasons of backwardness of India and
especially Bihar, one reason is that honest,
sincere, educated, brave and hardworking persons
are considered burden to society and their
sacrifice just becomes statistics. This gives
very wrong signal to other honest person who
chose alternate paths.
While thinking about this incidence I remembered
another shameful incidence. Just few years after
"Operation Blue Star" a prostitution racket was
uncovered in which few of the females were
wives, daughter or sisters of the some of army
personnel killed in an encounter and they were
forced for this trade as after losing their
loved ones and sometime single bread earner
government took long time to give them economic
help. "WHAT A SHAME!"
Well , few people who had some heartburn when I
compared India with America in my article “When
India will become America?”, here is one more.
In America, almost in every city there is a
“Vietnam Memorial” for fallen heroes of this
war. Every police officer killed on duty is
remembered forever (at least for a generation)
and families never go through any economic or
financial hardship.
We can start now by recognizing sacrifice of
Late Shri Akhileshwar Prasad ji, make sure that
he receives what he deserves posthumously and
though his family will never get him back, at
least they get a decent living.
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I
totally agree with Mr. Pandey's
comment here that something needs to
be done for such rare but really
brave heroes in Bihar. I remember
one such SP from Dhanbad Late Shri
Randhir Varma who also laid his life
on duty. When I was in school at
that time, I wanted to be an SP like
him and he was my hero. In that
episode, there was at least
something done to make his memorial.
I guess his cause was probably
helped by the fact that his wife
became the MP of Dhanbad later on. I
am afraid probably sacrifices of
this brave office would be just
forgotten in official files and his
family would be made to struggle to
meet their ends even. All this would
probably lead others to say
cynically that "kya fayada hua jaan
dekar ke, hero banane chale the ".
What a shame! In one of the recent
articles on Patnadaily.com, a
current SSP commented that his life
would be taken away like this DSP by
Ranvir Sena men. I guess the comment
sums up all the feeling that other
cops in the force may be having
about the sacrifices of Shri
Akhileshwar Prasad Singh. . When
such heroes are far and few these
days in Bihar Police force, I would
have been more happy if the Govt had
tried to do more to show to the
other members of the force that the
Govt and society really cares about
their sacrifices. But again, being
on the sidelines here I dont know
how and in what ways ordinary people
like me can contribute to this good
cause. Of course, I would always
remember this brave officer like
Late Shri Randhir Varma for his
exemplary bravery and feel that may
be Bihar Police probably has few
officers who put service before
self. - Ravindra Kumar, USA -
Apr. 20, 2006 |
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