#JusticeforSurajDubey- Why aren't we talking about this now?

Pune, February 08: Two days to the incident (murder) and a very few people to know about? How unfortunate! The state of Maharashtra, particularly the Palghar city has again come on the radar of every concerned bleeding Indian after being home to the two back to back recent attaks on the soul of Bharat, the Soldiers and the Sadhus!

 

On Saturday, a 27 year old Navy sailor named Suraj Kumar Dubey succumbed to his injuries after being abducted and set ablaze in Palghar town of Maharashtra. Dubey was a resident of Ranchi, Jharkhand and had recently got engaged and was to be married in about three months time. He worked as a seaman at INS Agrani training school in Coimbatore. The victim, who was on a leave, had returned to Chennai on January 31 via a flight.

 

 

At around 9 pm, the Navy sailor was threatened by three random people with a revolver and his cellphone was snatched away. The unidentified men then forced Dubey into a white SUV and asked him to pay Rs 10 lacs as ransom. He was kept hostage at an unknown location in Chennai. After being detained there for 3 days, the Navy official was taken to a forest in Vevji village in Talasari Taluka in Palghar near the Maharashtra-Gujarat border on Friday (February 5) morning. He was doused with petrol and set ablaze by the perpetrators. Dube suffered 90 per cent burn injuries as he lay without clothes in the forest.

 

 

A press note by Palghar police said, "He was kept in Chennai for three days. On February 5, he was brought to Devji Vaijalpada near Gholwad in Palghar where he was set on fire. Sub divisional police officer Dhanaji Nalawade is probing the case.

 

 

Meanwhile, the father of the deceased Navy sailor, Mithilesh Dubey, had demanded justice for his son. He said, “I want justice for my son. That’s the message I want to get across via media. He gave a statement before dying that he was kidnapped and imprisoned for three days, being made an object of ransom. He was then brought to Palghar and burnt to death.”

 

 

This is what actually the world needs to talk about. Why isn't anybody talking about this? The kiddnapers bring the officer all the way to Palghar from Chennai- a distance of about 1400 kms? Is this only about ransom? Does that mean that the kidnappers were already aware of his whereabouts? How can this not be a shock to anybody?

 

Last year, on April 16, two Sadhus of Juna Akhara, Chikne Maharaj Kalpavrukshagiri and Sushilgiri Maharaj were lynched along with their 30 year old driver by a mob in Palgahr. The incident took place at Gadchinchale village in Palghar district, Maharashtra. They were on their way to Surat, Gujarat. The police were present at the scene, but the allegedly did not try to stop the mob or did anything to save the sadhus.

 

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The fact-finding committee constituted to unravel the truth of the Palghar case, had revealed that the left wing organizations working in the area have created hatred in the minds of the tribals against Hindus, its religious gurus, and sadhus. Vivek Vichar Manch formed the fact-finding team that comprised of retired judges, lawyers, and police officers. The fact-finding team’s investigation had also concluded that the growing violence in the area came to the fore after Chrisitan organizations such as the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, Tenancy Organizations, Bhoomi Sena, Adivasi Ekta Parishad, CPM began exerting their influence in the region.