JAIPUR: The city’s streets seem to have become more dangerous with goons beating up people in full public view with impunity. In two separate incidents, unidentified goons armed with sticks and iron roads severely thrashed three people near Vatika Road and Vishwa Karma Industrial (VKI) area. The pedestrians recorded the chilling incident on their phones and quietly walked away.
The state human rights commission has also taken a strong cognizance of the matter and sought a detailed report from the city police commissioner about the horrifying acts.
The first incident was reported on Tuesday night at Vatika Road under the limits of
Sanganer Sadar police station area, when at 9 pm at least 10 masked men attacked
Giriraj Sharma (24) outside a marriage garden. The victim was rushed to a hospital by his friend who told cops that Sharma was beaten till he fell unconscious and began bleeding profusely.
Sanganer Sadar police filed an FIR against unnamed persons but no arrests could be made till Thursday night. “The initial investigation indicates that both the victim and attackers belonged to the same community and knew each other,” said
Heera Lal, the investigation officer in the matter, adding that the case is being probed by the police. Footage retrieved from a nearby CCTV shows attackers getting out of two cars and thrashing the victim who tried to flee from the spot.
In another chilling incident, two youths working as recovery agents were brutally attacked and beaten to pulp by three unidentified attackers on Wednesday at 9 am in full public view on
Sikar Road near Jodla power house.
The two youths, Ajay Pal Singh and
Suresh Gujjar, working as recovery agents were beaten for close to 30 minutes by goons who were armed with sticks and iron roads.
Even as the victims cried for help, the passers-by did not intervene. Instead, they chose to record the video of the two victims writhing in pain and pleading attackers with folded hands to let them go.
The VKI police station said that an FIR has been registered against the attackers. “We are trying to identify the suspects involved in the crime with the help of CCTV footage and photographs,” SHO Ratan Singh told TOI.
While no breakthrough could be made in both cases even after more than 24 hours, the police have to identify the suspects. Both incidents took place on busy roads of the city, yet no police personnel arrived at the spot in time.
The police admitted that two youths in VKI were beaten for close to 30 minutes.
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The city streets have long turned into a happy hunting ground for criminals of all sorts, including chain snatchers who prey on elderly women going to temples, vehicle lifters, and a new type of miscreant who torches cars parked on roads just for fun. Two separate incidents of goons chasing and thrashing youths with iron rods and sticks on Vatika Road and Sikar Road have marked a new low for the city’s crime scene. The images of victims writhing in pain, pleading with their tormentors with folded hands will forever haunt citizens who refused to help the victims or inform the cops. The sheer audacity of criminals and the indifference of citizens show a lack of empathy for victims in the society. While one was a late-night incident, the second took place in broad daylight. The patrolling teams of the Jaipur police, predictably, were caught napping. It has now become imperative for the police department to regain the confidence of the citizen and make him/her an enabler in preventing such crime. For this, it has to increase and improve the patrol network and put in place a quick response system that involves all stake holders of the society.
Video grabs show two incidents where three persons were beaten up