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Confidence in Bihar Still Missing
by
Arun Prakash Bakshi
Jan. 1, 2008 |
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Time
to Act, Mr. Chief Minister,
It's been over a year that Prof. Papiya Ghosh
murder case had hit the national headlines.
There were claims by the State police within a
month of the incident that the case had been
solved. I had met this remarkable lady, and the
thoughts of who could have murdered her and what
could have been the motives, always bothered me.
But the reason I am writing to you, through the
columns of PatnaDaily is not just to enquire
about one individual, but it is intended to
highlight the general impression that people
still carry about Bihar and its administration.
Has anything really changed? If it has taken
over a year nab the perpetrators, I learnt that
two main culprits are still at large, let alone
bring them to justice, where is the more
efficient and focused governance that you have
promised us with? Bihar's biggest challenge
today is to create the confidence in people,
both at home and abroad, that it is a safe place
where the laws of the land would prevail. But if
such a high profile murder case of a lady
academician in the very heart of Patna has not
been solved in over an year, our confidence in
Bihar will remain only a distant dream.
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I do
not consider this a case of
confidence. It is, in general,
missing across India and amongst
Indians living abroad. Swetnisha
Trivedi (Bobby) murder in Patna, I
think, remained unsolved even after
23-24 years. Officialdom changed,
some of their ranks retired and some
of them laid to rest, but negligence
continued writing Bihar's
inscription in the form of its image
building exercise.
Your article entitled "Negligence in
Bihar Still Alive" looks more
appropriate. - Dr. Sudhir Ranjan,
USA - Dec. 3, 2007 |
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