Kota (Rajasthan),
It was just five of us – gobar, pankaj, appoo, vigi and me while others were enjoying the 4-days-holiday Bansal gave during the Raksha Bandhan. One year was over staying there in Kota, none of us had really got a chance ever to have a Kota-Local tour. So we took out our cycles, had some evening snacks, and set out on NH-12 in the opposite direction of Bansal Classes to some unknown destination.
We paddled our two-wheelers till we reached a scenario where there were loads of people with proportional intensity of whisperings, four constables and an open ancient police jeep with half-corroded number plate while the other half loaded with mud, leaving behind the lower curved part of the letter 8 as the only visible sign. It seemed to be the outer part of a village, seeing a wide well with no pulley and some buffaloes around, we concluded. We parked our two-wheelers and approached towards the crowd. Before we could reach them, a structure with two hands, two legs and other stuffs exactly like those carried by a human being suspended to a branch of a giant banyan tree with a white cloth came to our visible range.
Since it was the first time when I saw a dead body, it was just a source of amusement for me, while the other four joined the array of whispering people. Someone told us that he was a farmer who`s wife was under serious and expensive medical procedures, was under a lot of debt from various people, had 11 children, 6 being females, 4 of whom were of the age in which they were supposed to have in-laws, only 2 of the males of the family were the source of bread and butter, the total income of the family being not more than Rs 25000/- averaged over an annum.
Now the question was, what was the police waiting for? Was it for a free
demonstration of hanging human body to little kids who`d never seen death in their lives. We then came to know that they were waiting for an expert climber of the same village who was out to the city which was around 5 kms from that place, was on foot and still they were expecting him any time.
As the shared vision of the Rajasthan Police says, “Aam jan mein vishwas, apradhiyon mein darr”, they are doing a great job inspiring the youths into the medical line by presenting a live demonstration of physical changes that occur in a human body 8 hours after death. Also they are creating a decent piece of trust among the public by laathi-charging to those who came forward with some advise, their repose being- “ab tu mujhe mera kaam seekhaayega, bhaag yahaan se (Now you will teach me what to do, get yourself out of here)”.
Instead their Vision should be, “Aam jan mein darr, apradhiyon mein vishwas”.
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