Extortion in Bihar

Extortionists threaten engineer
Priti Nath Jha, TNN 19 December 2009, 07:44am IST

MUZAFFARPUR: Upendra Sharma, an engineer, and his family members are facing threat from extortionists. Zonal secretary of Bihar Engineering Service Association Ram Swarath Sah urged the DGP, DIG, and respective DMs and SPs of Muzaffarpur and East Champaran districts on Friday to save the lives of water resources development department assistant engineer Upendra Sharma, posted at Muzaffarpur, and his family members living at their own house at Motihari, who have been threatened with dire consequence by some extortionists if they fail to hand over their land and building of Motihari town to them.

Sah has informed police that Sharma's family members are living at their own house at Agarwa (Chikni Ghat) under the Motihari Town police station. While Sharma was on his duty at Muzaffarpur, a group of about 15 persons, including five known faces of neighbouring area, led by one Nand Kishore Rai misbehaved with his wife Usha Sharma on December 10 and asked her to give the land and building to them as rangdari or else the entire family would be wiped out.

According to Sah's letter to police officers, Usha approached the Motihari Town police station, but her FIR was not lodged. Then, she went to the court of Motihari CJM and filed a complaint petition. Even then, the police have not yet recorded her statement. Sah alleged a brother of the main accused Nand Kishore Rai is a police constable posted at Motihari and that is why police are not entertaining her complaint.

Sah said an executive engineer of Sitamarhi, Yogendra Pandey, was killed by some contractor-cum-rangdars in June. The superintending engineer of tubewell division of Muzaffarpur and an executive engineer in building division at Samastipur had already lodged FIRs regarding threats to them from extortionists.

And I thought things had changed under Nitish Kumar.
No, only the actors have changed.
Either that or the same actors have changed parties.
The more things are proclaimed to have changed, the more they remain the same.
I am sorry, but I expected better governance from Nitish Kumar.
I suppose, I was a fool to have expected that.
Bihar will never change.
If it ever changes, it will change only for the worse.