Guwahati: City Youth Remains Missing, Parents Appeal to CM

GUWAHATI: It's been more than a month that a young man in the city by the name of Biswajit went missing in the city on October 9, 2022, while returning from his job as a pharmacist in Jayanagar. Because they received some threatening messages from Biswajit's phone, his parents alleged that he has been kidnapped by some criminals. Additionally, they claimed that the kidnappers had wanted a whopping Rs 40 Lakhs in exchange for his release.

According to reports, the victim's parents reported the event to the Dispur Police Station as soon as possible, but a month passed with no resolution. Additionally, they have requested that Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of Assam, take action right away in a letter. The release of the kidnappers is still being awaited by Biswajit's parents.

A bleak image of crime control in the capital city is painted by the approximately 40,000 criminal cases in Guwahati that have not been resolved since 1992 and by the police's inability to locate case diaries for 16,000 of these cases. Pending criminal proceedings inspire offenders to commit additional crimes and lessen persons with criminal tendencies' fear of punishment.

The perception that the Gateway to the Northeast is rapidly becoming unsafe is the result of a number of daylight robberies, kidnappings, and murders that have occurred in the city in recent weeks.

Even while the police have made quick progress in a number of instances, the lack of sufficient staff and infrastructure support in the quickly expanding metropolis makes it difficult for them to prevent crimes, conduct investigations, and handle the mounting number of open cases.

The city police would have to work overtime to meet the deadline of March 31, 2022, which Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma set for the resolution of a maximum number of open and newly registered cases and the locating of missing case diaries. The city's lack of sufficient CCTV cameras has a significant impact on crime surveillance and investigation progress, but it doesn't seem to be a top priority for successive governments and civic authorities.

Additionally, the increase in snatching incidents on city streets in the evening and at night is largely due to a number of neighborhoods either not having enough streetlights installed or having installed streetlights that are inoperable.

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