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Child murder: Yet no lesson learnt
ALTHOUGH SHOCKED by the murder of two-and-half-year-old Chiraag Bajaj by his own domestic servant, city residents and Chiraag?s neighbours have yet to learn a lesson. None of them is willing to verify the antecedents of their servants despite most residents feeling insecure.
ALTHOUGH SHOCKED by the murder of two-and-half-year-old Chiraag Bajaj by his own domestic servant, city residents and Chiraag’s neighbours have yet to learn a lesson. None of them is willing to verify the antecedents of their servants despite most residents feeling insecure.
A majority of servants belonging to different parts of the country have been employed in large numbers in the city on basis of recommendations by their acquaintances.
Moreover, employers have not bothered to check the original native places from where the servants have come.
Despite the police urging the residents to get their servants registered and also to report of any suspicious servant, people have not come forward.
Station Officer of Sigra Ajay Singh told Hindustan Times during his brief tenure of over two months, SSP Dr GK Goswami had appealed to people through pamphlets to inform the police about their suspected ‘tenants’ and ‘servants’. Pamphlets to this effect were also circulated amongst locals to create awareness.
“Even after the gruesome murder of Chiraag, not a single family has taken a lesson from this barbaric incident and come forward to seek police help in investigating the credentials of their servants,” Singh said.
He added the city was densely populated and it was not easy for police to visit lakhs of houses for inquiry of tenants and servants, while ignoring other assignments. He said the populace had to come forward itself on the issue and cooperate with the cops.
Station Officer of Jaitpura police station, Gorakh Nath Rai said it was impractical for the cops to take on this duty almost single-handedly.
Even if they did, no master would like his servants to be quizzed as they treated them as part of their own families.
It may be noted Chiraag, son of a trader, Anil Bajaj had been abducted by domestic servant, Ajay from Ashok Nagar colony on Tuesday afternoon.
The servant took him to an isolated place across the Ganga and killed him.
Later, he buried the body. The accused had told the police he killed the child owing to bad behaviour of the child’s mother, Menaka, with him.
