Spiritual townships of Haridwar , Rishikesh gradually turning into crime prone cities

Haridwar, Rishikesh, a religious and spiritual township becomes a crime township unfortunately with criminal activities on the rise.

Haridwar and Rishikesh though known as the pious spiritual townships with Ganges flowing through these cities enticing thousands of pilgrims daily to wash their sins by dipping in the pious waters , unfortunately is now turning into a township of criminalism with several cases of murders, illegal drugs and liquor smuggling, chains snatchings, prostitution etc taking place on regular basis.

Haridwar holds a special spiritual and religious service significance which is the nucleus to hold after every four years historic Mahakumbh and Kanwariya Yatra every year where lakhs of pilgrims converge from various parts of the country including abroad with the sole objective to pay their obeisance to Lord Shiva and mother Ganga and wash their past sins as per the writing in the ancient scriptures.

But unfortunately this religious and spiritual township has today become a den of all that is allegedly inhuman, untrustworthy, illegal and unlawful.

If we roughly go through the few reported cases of criminal backgrounds that happened in Haridwar and Rishikesh the other day we’ll be shocked to see the nature of crimes taking place in this holy township where pilgrims come to seek salvation and God’s ultimate refuge for protection and safeguards.

As a sequel to these ongoing criminal activities just yesterday or the other day in Rishikesh the vigilant Uttarakhand police caught a woman in a car carrying several pouches of illicit liquor tied to her body and elsewhere to be supplied to households or his permanent liquor consumers arbitrarily alongwith two of her wimen accomplices.

There are several other such gangs supplying illicit liquor in Rishikesh banned areas minting tremendous profits breaking the law in league with definitely those in the system.

The mobile woman carrier of liquor pouches was caught on the Rishikesh barrier with 225 pouches of Malta indigenous liquor at the Forest department’s barrier in a car along with two other women smugglers by the vigilant police personnel.

This might definitely be a big cartel involved in the supply of illicit liquor in Rishikesh and elsewhere.

In another case in Haridwar, Navoday Nagar colony on Monday in a broad daylight murder a Saharanpur resident has brutally killed a live in girl partner with a knife namely Hansika Yadav who was living with him since the last one year in Haridwar. They were living separately since the last one month which infuriated the culprit Pradeep who killed her brutally with a knife by slitting her throat.

In another incident a chain snatcher was caught by the public in a crowded Haridwar township and thrashed badly handing him to the police after he snatched a chain from a woman in broad day light This is the incident of Govindpuri, Haridwar.

The state capital Dehradun too is not devoid of crimes and the fraudsters where incidents of alleged robbery, murders, thefts, prostitution, scams and women being unsafe take place.

Just the other day the fraudsters courage has gone so high that they’ve not even spared the top most bureaucrats of the state capital viz IAS and upright officer R. Meenakshi Sundaram by misusing his identity credentials and asking for money.

The Dehradun police have registered an FIR in this regard and started an in-depth Investigation.

In Dehradun railway station too several fraudsters are active keeping eye on the passengers luggage and jewellery and duping them on various occasions.

This writer’s sister in law was duped a few decades ago from Dehradun Railway station inside the train. Her two suitcases were immediately robbed one with jewels of thousands of rupees then after she and her husband entered the train and placed their luggage. Till date not a single piece of jewelry has been recovered nor any cash even after twenty two years. Shame.